In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 122
Before the house he saw O-Tsuyu standing, and O-Yoné with the peony-lantern; and both of them were gazing at the Buddhist texts pasted above the entrance.
Who acts: house, both · What happens: see, gaze, paste · To what, where: Tsuyu standing, Buddhist texts, entrance
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 (house, both), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsuyu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 O | punct |
| 8 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | compound |
| 9 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lantern | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lantern | cc |
| 12 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yoné | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yoné | punct |
| 14 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lantern | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 lantern | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lantern | det |
| 17 | peony | peony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lantern | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 peony | punct |
| 19 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gazing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gazing | cc |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 gazing | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 both | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gazing | aux |
| 26 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 texts | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 texts | det |
| 29 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 texts | amod |
| 30 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gazing | obl |
| 31 | pasted | paste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 texts | acl |
| 32 | above | above | ADP | _ | 34 entrance | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 entrance | det |
| 34 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pasted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | house | Tsuyu standing | before the house | the peony lantern O Yoné conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer standing=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | gaze | past · progressive | both of shutters | at the Buddhist texts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at text=Theme | ||||
| 3 | paste | participle | the Buddhist texts not said here | the entrance | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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