In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 75
Therefore, after having made a careful examination of the premises, he betook himself to the temple Shin-Banzui-In, as quickly as his aged limbs could bear him.
Who acts: image, aged limbs · What happens: have, make, betake, bear, examine · To what, where: careful examination, image, premises
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 (image, aged limbs), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 betook | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 having | mark |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 betook | advcl |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 examination | det |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 examination | amod |
| 8 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 premises | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 premises | det |
| 11 | premises | premise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 examination | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 betook | nsubj |
| 14 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 betook | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 temple | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 temple | det |
| 18 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 betook | obl |
| 19 | Shin | Shin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 In | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Banzui | punct |
| 21 | Banzui | Banzui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shin | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 In | punct |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 temple | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 quickly | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 quickly | advmod |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 betook | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 bear | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 limbs | amod |
| 30 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bear | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 bear | aux |
| 32 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 quickly | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bear | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 betook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | image not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | image not said here | a careful examination of the premises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset examination=Product | ||||
| 3 | betake | past | image | image | to the temple; quickly, therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bear | could | image's aged limbs | image | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | examine | the premises | nom examination «act 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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