In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 61
Here was indeed the very small house,—and in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
What happens: be · To what, where: small house, Yanaka
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 house | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 house | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yanaka | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Yanaka | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Yanaka | case |
| 12 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sasaki | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 Sasaki | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 no | punct |
| 16 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yanaka | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the small house | Yanaka and no Sasaki; here | indeed property | tree rules |
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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