In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 99
They are sometimes stamped or burned upon wood, but more commonly written or printed upon narrow strips of paper.
What happens: stamp, burn, write, print · To what, where: texts, wood
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stamped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stamped | aux:pass |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 stamped | advmod |
| 4 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 burned | cc |
| 6 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stamped | conj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 written | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 commonly | advmod |
| 12 | commonly | commonly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 written | amod |
| 13 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stamped | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 printed | cc |
| 15 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 written | conj | |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 strips | case |
| 17 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strips | amod |
| 18 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 printed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 paper | case |
| 20 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strips | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | present · passive | texts = text | sometimes property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | burn | participle | wood | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wood=Location | |||||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | participle | upon narrow strips of paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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