In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 122
The question of food as wages had never seriously troubled her, because most of the families of the street daily contributed to her support.
Who acts: question, most, West · What happens: not trouble, contribute, question, support · To what, where: West, support, food
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 (question, most, West), 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 | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 troubled | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 question | nmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wages | case |
| 6 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 question | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 troubled | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 troubled | advmod |
| 9 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 10 troubled | advmod |
| 10 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 troubled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 contributed | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 contributed | mark |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 contributed | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 families | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 families | det |
| 17 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 most | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 street | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 street | det |
| 20 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 families | nmod |
| 21 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 22 contributed | advmod |
| 22 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 troubled | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 support | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 support | nmod:poss |
| 25 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contributed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trouble | past | the question of food as wages | West | seriously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | contribute | past | most of the families of the street | West's support | daily property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to support=Recipient | |||
| 3 | question | food | as wages | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient as=obl | |||||
| 4 | support | West | nom support «act transitive»: poss=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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