In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 52
Suddenly his attention was attracted by two new tombs, placed side by side, at the rear of the temple.
Who acts: two new tombs, Shitaya · What happens: attract, place, attend · To what, where: attention, rear
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 new tombs, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 attracted | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 attention | nmod:poss |
| 3 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attracted | aux:pass |
| 5 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tombs | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tombs | nummod |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tombs | amod |
| 9 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attracted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tombs | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rear | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 rear | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rear | det |
| 18 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rear | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past · passive | two new tombs and placed side by side | Shitaya's attention | the rear of the temple | suddenly property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | place | participle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | attend | Shitaya | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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