In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 126
When the dog-killers come on their bi-annual round, the neighbors look after her interests.
Who acts: dog killers, neighbors, West · What happens: come, look, interest · To what, where: bi annual round
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 (dog killers, neighbors, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 killers | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killers | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 5 | killers | killer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 round | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 round | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 round | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bi | punct |
| 11 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 round | amod |
| 12 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbors | det |
| 15 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 interests | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 interests | nmod:poss |
| 19 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the dog killers | killers's bi annual round | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on round=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the neighbors | after West's interests | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | interest | West | nom interest «cognition 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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