In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 116
Two o’clock in the morning, also called “the Hour of the Ox,” was the Japanese hour of ghosts and goblins.
Who acts: Two o’clock · What happens: call, be · To what, where: morning, Japanese hour · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Two o’clock), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o’clock | nummod |
| 2 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o’clock | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 morning | acl |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hour | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hour | det |
| 11 | Hour | Hour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ox | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ox | det |
| 14 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hour | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 o’clock | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 o’clock | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hour | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 19 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hour | amod |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ghosts | case |
| 22 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hour | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 goblins | cc |
| 24 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ghosts | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the morning not said here | the Hour of the Ox | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Two o’clock in the morning | the Japanese hour | of ghosts and goblins | 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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