In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 71
Hakuōdō Yusai, the fortune-teller, went to view the corpse at the prayer of the faithless Tomozō.
Who acts: Hakuōdō, faithless Tomozō · What happens: go, view, pray · To what, where: corpse, prayer
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 (Hakuōdō, faithless Tomozō), 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 | Hakuōdō | Hakuōdō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Yusai | Yusai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hakuōdō | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 teller | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teller | det |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teller | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortune | punct |
| 7 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hakuōdō | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hakuōdō | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 view | mark |
| 11 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corpse | det |
| 13 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 view | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 prayer | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prayer | det |
| 16 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 view | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tomozō | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tomozō | det |
| 19 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tomozō | amod |
| 20 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 prayer | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hakuōdō | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | view | to-infinitive | Hakuōdō not said here | the corpse | the prayer of the faithless Tomozō | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pray | the faithless Tomozō | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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