In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 72
The old man was terrified and astonished at the spectacle, but looked about him with a keen eye.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, look · To what, where: spectacle
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 (old man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 astonished | cc |
| 7 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 terrified | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 spectacle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spectacle | det |
| 10 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 astonished | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 eye | det |
| 18 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eye | amod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old man | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the old man not said here | the spectacle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the old man not said here | about man; with a keen eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
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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