In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 56
Neither bore any personal name,—only the Buddhist _kaimyō_, or posthumous appellation.
What happens: bear · To what, where: personal name
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: 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 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 2 bore | advmod |
| 2 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 name | det |
| 4 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bore | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buddhist | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 Buddhist | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddhist | det |
| 10 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 kaimyō | punct |
| 12 | kaimyō | kaimyō | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Buddhist | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 kaimyō | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appellation | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 appellation | cc |
| 16 | posthumous | posthumous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 appellation | amod |
| 17 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Buddhist | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | any personal name | the Buddhist or posthumous appellation obl; neither property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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