In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 67
The high-priest Ryōseki was a learned and a holy man.
What happens: learn · To what, where: high priest
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 priest | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 high | punct |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Ryōseki | Ryōseki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 priest | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 learned | aux:pass |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 learned | det |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learned | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · passive | the high priest | a holy man conj | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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