In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 88
I was recently shown a miniature figure of Kwannon, in an iron case, which had been carried by an officer through the Satsuma war.
Who acts: officer · What happens: show, carry, figure · To what, where: I, iron case, Satsuma war, Kwannon
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 (officer), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 4 shown | advmod |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 figure | det |
| 6 | miniature | miniature | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 figure | amod |
| 7 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kwannon | case |
| 9 | Kwannon | Kwannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 figure | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 case | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 case | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 case | det |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 case | compound |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 carried | aux:pass |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 case | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 officer | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 officer | det |
| 22 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 war | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 war | det |
| 25 | Satsuma | Satsuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 war | compound |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | I | a miniature figure of Kwannon obj; a iron case parataxis; recently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient figure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect · passive | a officer | a iron case | the Satsuma war | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | figure | Kwannon | nom figure «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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