In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 117
She is lean as a wolf, and very old,—the white bitch that guards my gate at night.
Who acts: West, white bitch · What happens: be, guard · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West, white bitch), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lean | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lean | cop |
| 3 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wolf | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lean | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 old | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 old | advmod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lean | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bitch | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bitch | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bitch | amod |
| 15 | bitch | bitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lean | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 guards | nsubj |
| 17 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bitch | acl:relcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guards | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guards | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | West | as a wolf; the white bitch conj; lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guard | present | the white bitch | my gate | night | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
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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