In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 87
Such little images were often worn by _samurai_ on the person.
What happens: wear · To what, where: Such little images
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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 images | amod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 images | amod |
| 3 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worn | aux:pass |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 worn | advmod |
| 6 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 samurai | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 9 | samurai | samurai | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 worn | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 samurai | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · passive | Such little images | by samurai; on the person; often property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=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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