In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 78
This you must wear, in its covering, next to your body,—under the girdle….
Who acts: This · What happens: wear · To what, where: covering
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | aux |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 covering | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 covering | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 covering | nmod:poss |
| 8 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 body | punct |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 13 body | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covering | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girdle | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 girdle | punct |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 girdle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girdle | det |
| 18 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covering | conj |
| 19 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | must | This | Dead's covering and your body and the girdle | you nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent covering=Source |
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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