In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 119
Spaces once occupied by graves had been turned into potato-patches.
What happens: turn · To what, where: Spaces, potato patches
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: 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 | Spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 occupied | advmod |
| 3 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Spaces | amod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 graves | case |
| 5 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occupied | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 turned | aux:pass |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 patches | case |
| 10 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 patches | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 potato | punct |
| 12 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect · passive | Spaces | potato patches | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into patch=Trajectory |
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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