In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 113
[15] According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this _yatsudoki_ or eighth hour was the same as our two o’clock in the morning.
Who acts: old Japanese way, yatsudoki · What happens: accord, count, be
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Japanese way, yatsudoki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 15 | punct |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 way | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 15 | punct |
| 4 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 way | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 According | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 8 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 counting | mark |
| 11 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 yatsudoki | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 yatsudoki | punct |
| 16 | yatsudoki | yatsudoki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 same | nsubj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 yatsudoki | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 hour | cc |
| 19 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hour | amod |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yatsudoki | conj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 same | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | parataxis |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 o’clock | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 o’clock | nmod:poss |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 o’clock | nummod |
| 27 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 same | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 morning | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 morning | det |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 o’clock | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | count | gerund | the old Japanese way not said here | time | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | this yatsudoki or eighth hour | as our two o’clock in the morning; same property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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