In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 127
Beside the larger tomb was a statue of Jizo, with a broken nose.
What happens: be, break · To what, where: statue, larger tomb
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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 4 tomb | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tomb | det |
| 3 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 tomb | amod |
| 4 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 statue | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 statue | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 statue | det |
| 7 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Jizo | case |
| 9 | Jizo | Jizo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 statue | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nose | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 nose | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nose | det |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nose | amod |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 statue | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 statue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a statue and a broken nose | the larger tomb | of Jizo; a broken nose conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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