In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 137
So the priest of Kobudera painted the name of the temple on her left side, in beautiful Chinese text; and the smith put the name of his shop on her right side; and the vegetable-seller put on her breast the ideographs for “eight-hundred,”—which represent the customary abbreviation of the word yaoya (vegetable-seller),—any yaoya being supposed to sell eight hundred or more different things.
Who acts: priest, smith, vegetable seller, customary abbreviation · What happens: paint, put, represent, suppose, sell, name · To what, where: name, left side, right side, ideographs, breast, customary abbreviation
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 (priest, smith, vegetable seller, customary abbreviation), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 painted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kobudera | case |
| 5 | Kobudera | Kobudera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 priest | nmod |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 text | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 text | case |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 text | amod |
| 19 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 text | amod |
| 20 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 smith | det |
| 24 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 painted | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 shop | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shop | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 side | amod |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 and | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 painted | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 seller | det |
| 38 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seller | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 vegetable | punct |
| 40 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 and | appos |
| 41 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 seller | acl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 breast | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 breast | nmod:poss |
| 44 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 put | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ideographs | det |
| 46 | ideographs | ideograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 put | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 hundred | case |
| 48 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 hundred | punct |
| 49 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 hundred | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 eight | punct |
| 51 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 put | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 hundred | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 hundred | punct |
| 54 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 represent | punct |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 represent | nsubj |
| 56 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 hundred | conj |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 abbreviation | det |
| 58 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 abbreviation | compound |
| 59 | abbreviation | abbreviation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 represent | obj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 yaoya | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 yaoya | det |
| 62 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 yaoya | compound |
| 63 | yaoya | yaoya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 abbreviation | nmod |
| 64 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 67 seller | punct |
| 65 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 seller | compound |
| 66 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 65 vegetable | punct |
| 67 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 yaoya | appos |
| 68 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 67 seller | punct |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 supposed | punct |
| 70 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 74 supposed | punct |
| 71 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 72 yaoya | det |
| 72 | yaoya | yaoya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 73 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 74 supposed | aux:pass |
| 74 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 59 abbreviation | acl:relcl |
| 75 | to | to | PART | _ | 76 sell | mark |
| 76 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 74 supposed | xcomp |
| 77 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 78 hundred | compound |
| 78 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 82 things | nummod |
| 79 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 80 more | cc |
| 80 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 78 hundred | conj |
| 81 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 82 things | amod |
| 82 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 76 sell | obj |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the priest of Kobudera | the name of the temple | foreigner's left side | in beautiful Chinese text | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on side=Destination | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the smith | the name of smith's shop | foreigner's right side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | participle | the vegetable seller not said here | the ideographs | foreigner's breast | for eight hundred | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on breast=Destination | ||
| 4 | represent | present | the customary abbreviation of the word yaoya | which nsubj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot abbreviation=Theme | ||||
| 5 | suppose | gerund · passive | the customary abbreviation of the word yaoya not said here | any yaoya | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sell | to-infinitive | the customary abbreviation of the word yaoya not said here | hundred different things | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | name | the temple | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | name | smith's shop | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | abbreviate | the word yaoya | nom abbreviation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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