In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 54
Shinzaburō remembered that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yoné was exactly similar; and the coincidence impressed him as strange.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, peony lantern, coincidence · What happens: remember, carry, be, impress · To what, where: peony lantern, lantern · 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 (Shinzaburō, peony lantern, coincidence), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 similar | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lantern | det |
| 5 | peony | peony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lantern | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 peony | punct |
| 7 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 similar | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lantern | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 O | case |
| 10 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yoné | punct |
| 12 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 O | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 similar | cop |
| 14 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 similar | advmod |
| 15 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remembered | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 impressed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 impressed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coincidence | det |
| 19 | coincidence | coincidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 impressed | nsubj |
| 20 | impressed | impress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 impressed | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 strange | case |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 impressed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Shinzaburō | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | participle | the peony lantern not said here | by O and Yoné | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the peony lantern | exactly, similar property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | impress | past | the coincidence | lantern | as strange | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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