In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 134
“Then let the foreigner’s name be put upon the dog,” suggested the policeman.
Who acts: dog, policeman, foreigner · What happens: let, put, suggest, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
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, policeman, foreigner), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 suggested | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foreigner | det |
| 5 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 foreigner | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 dog | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 15 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 policeman | det |
| 17 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suggested | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the foreigner's name | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive · passive | the dog | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the policeman | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | name in a quote | the foreigner | nom name «communication 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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