In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 92
More and more amazed, the old _ninsomi_ ventured to observe:—
What happens: venture, observe
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: 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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 amazed | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 amazed | cc |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 amazed | advmod |
| 4 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 amazed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 old | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amazed | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | ninsomi | ninsomi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 old | dep |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 ventured | punct |
| 11 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 old | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 observe | mark |
| 13 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ventured | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 amazed | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | observe | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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