In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 48
It was yet early in the morning when he reached the quarter of Yanaka-no-Sasaki, and began his search for the dwelling of O-Tsuyu.
Who acts: advice, Shitaya · What happens: be, reach, begin, search · To what, where: quarter, search
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 (advice, Shitaya), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 morning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 morning | cop |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 morning | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quarter | det |
| 12 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Yanaka | case |
| 14 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 quarter | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sasaki | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 Sasaki | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sasaki | punct |
| 18 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yanaka | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 search | nmod:poss |
| 23 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 dwelling | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dwelling | det |
| 26 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 O | case |
| 28 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 dwelling | nmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tsuyu | punct |
| 30 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 O | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | advice | in the morning; yet | early property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Shitaya | the quarter of Yanaka and no Sasaki | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Shitaya not said here | Shitaya's search | for the dwelling of O and Tsuyu | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | search | Shitaya | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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