In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 98
[14] _O-fuda_ is the general name given to religious texts used as charms or talismans.
Who acts: O fuda _ · What happens: be, give, use · To what, where: general name, religious texts, 14
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 (O fuda _), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 5 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 O | punct |
| 7 | fuda | fuda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | compound |
| 8 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 name | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 11 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 14 | appos |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 name | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 texts | case |
| 15 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 texts | amod |
| 16 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | obl |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 texts | acl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 charms | case |
| 19 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 talismans | cc |
| 21 | talismans | talisman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 charms | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | O fuda _ | the general name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the general name not said here | religious texts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to text=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | religious texts not said here | as charms or talismans | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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