In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 59
Immediately to Shinzaburö’s memory there recurred, with another and sinister meaning, the words of O-Yoné:—“_We went away, and found a very small house in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
Who acts: We · What happens: recur, sinister, go away, find, word · To what, where: meaning, small house, Yanaka, O Yoné · 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 (We), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 recurred | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 memory | case |
| 3 | Shinzaburö | Shinzaburö | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 memory | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Shinzaburö | case |
| 5 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recurred | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 recurred | advmod |
| 7 | recurred | recur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 another | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 recurred | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sinister | cc |
| 12 | sinister | sinister | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 another | conj |
| 13 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sinister | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 words | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meaning | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Yoné | case |
| 18 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Yoné | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yoné | punct |
| 20 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 recurred | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recurred | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 small | advmod |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Yanaka | case |
| 36 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 house | nmod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Sasaki | punct |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 Sasaki | det |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 no | punct |
| 40 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Yanaka | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recur | participle | there | to Shinzaburö's memory; immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sinister | infinitive | meaning | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | past | We | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | past | We not said here | a small house | Yanaka and no Sasaki | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | |||
| 5 | word | O Yoné | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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