In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 82
“Hagiwara Sama was suffering from the results of an evil karma; and his attendant was a bad man.
Who acts: Hagiwara Sama, attendant · What happens: suffer, be, result · To what, where: results, bad man, evil karma
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 (Hagiwara Sama, attendant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffering | punct |
| 2 | Hagiwara | Hagiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sama | compound |
| 3 | Sama | Sama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suffering | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffering | aux |
| 5 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 results | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 results | det |
| 8 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suffering | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 karma | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 karma | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 karma | amod |
| 12 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 results | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 attendant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffering | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer in a quote | past · progressive | Hagiwara Sama | the results of a evil karma | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Sama's attendant | a bad man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | result in a quote | a evil karma | nom result «phenomenon 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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