In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 138
Consequently she is now a very curious-looking dog; but she is well protected by all that calligraphy.
Who acts: yaoya, calligraphy · What happens: look, be, protect · To what, where: looking dog, yaoya
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 (yaoya, calligraphy), 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 | Consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 10 dog | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dog | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dog | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 dog | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 curious | advmod |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 curious | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 protected | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 protected | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 protected | aux:pass |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 protected | advmod |
| 16 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dog | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 calligraphy | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 calligraphy | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 calligraphy | det |
| 20 | calligraphy | calligraphy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 protected | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | yaoya | a looking dog | now | consequently property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | protect | present · passive | all calligraphy | yaoya | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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