In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 122
Everything—excepting the potato-patches—seemed to have been neglected for years.
Who acts: potato patches · What happens: except, seem, neglect · To what, where: potato patches, Everything
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 (potato patches), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 excepting | punct |
| 3 | excepting | except | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Everything | appos |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 patches | det |
| 5 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 patches | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 potato | punct |
| 7 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 excepting | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 patches | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 neglected | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 neglected | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 neglected | aux:pass |
| 13 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 neglected | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Everything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | gerund | the potato patches | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | the potato patches not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | neglect | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the potato patches not said here | year | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF» |
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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