In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 42
They told you—those people—that they were residing in the district of Shitaya, in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
Who acts: hands · What happens: tell, reside · To what, where: people, district · 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 (hands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 residing | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 residing | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 residing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 residing | aux |
| 11 | residing | reside | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 district | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 district | det |
| 14 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 residing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shitaya | case |
| 16 | Shitaya | Shitaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 district | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yanaka | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Yanaka | case |
| 19 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 residing | obl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sasaki | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 Sasaki | det |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 no | punct |
| 23 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yanaka | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | hands = hand | that people | you iobj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient people=Topic | |||
| 2 | reside | past · progressive | hands = hand | the district of Shitaya | in Yanaka and no Sasaki | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in district=Location |
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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