In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 57
Moreover he had been able, while his master was at the bath, to steal from its case the golden _mamori_, and to substitute for it an image of copper; and he had buried the _Kai-On-Nyōrai_ in a desolate field.
Who acts: lamentation, master · What happens: be, steal, substitute, bury, desolate, image · To what, where: bath, case, image, lamentation, copper
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 (lamentation, master), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 5 able | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bath | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 bath | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bath | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bath | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bath | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bath | det |
| 13 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 able | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 steal | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 steal | mark |
| 16 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 bath | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 case | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 case | nmod:poss |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steal | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mamori | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mamori | amod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 golden | punct |
| 23 | mamori | mamori | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 case | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 mamori | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 substitute | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 substitute | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 substitute | mark |
| 28 | substitute | substitute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 steal | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 substitute | obl |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 image | det |
| 32 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 substitute | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 copper | case |
| 34 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 image | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 buried | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 buried | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 buried | aux |
| 39 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 able | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 field | det |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 field | punct |
| 42 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 field | nsubj |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Nyōrai | punct |
| 44 | On | on | ADP | _ | 46 Nyōrai | case |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 On | punct |
| 46 | Nyōrai | Nyōrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Kai | conj |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 field | punct |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 field | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 field | det |
| 50 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 field | compound |
| 51 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 buried | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | lamentation | able, moreover property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lamentation's master | the bath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal | to-infinitive | master's case | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | substitute | to-infinitive | a image of copper | for master | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme image=Location | ||||
| 5 | bury | past · perfect · passive | lamentation | the desolate field Kai and Nyōrai obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme field=Destination | ||||
| 6 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | image | copper | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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