In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 100
He must be buried beside O-Tsuyu, the Lady Iijima; for his karma-relation to her was a very deep one.
Who acts: karma relation · What happens: bury, be · To what, where: Hagiwara, O Tsuyu, deep one
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (karma relation), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 buried | aux:pass |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 Tsuyu | case |
| 6 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsuyu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tsuyu | punct |
| 8 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Iijima | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Iijima | det |
| 11 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Iijima | compound |
| 12 | Iijima | Iijima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsuyu | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 relation | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 relation | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 relation | nmod:poss |
| 16 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relation | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 karma | punct |
| 18 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 relation | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 deep | advmod |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | must · passive | Hagiwara | O Tsuyu and the Lady Iijima | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside tsuyu=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Hagiwara's karma relation to Tsuyu | a deep one | tree rules |
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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