In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 130
As he did so, the characters appeared in white on the blackened surface.
Who acts: friend, characters · What happens: do, appear, blacken · To what, where: white
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 (friend, characters), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appeared | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 characters | det |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appeared | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 surface | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 surface | det |
| 13 | blackened | blacken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 surface | amod |
| 14 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | friend | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the characters | white | on the blackened surface | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in white=Location | |||
| 3 | blacken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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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