In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 14
These kakemono usually display the footprints upon a very large scale, with a multitude of mystical symbols and characters.
What happens: display · To what, where: kakemono
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 kakemono | det |
| 2 | kakemono | kakemono | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 display | obl |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 display | advmod |
| 4 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 footprints | det |
| 6 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 display | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 scale | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 scale | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scale | amod |
| 11 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 display | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 multitude | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 multitude | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 multitude | det |
| 15 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 display | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 symbols | case |
| 17 | mystical | mystical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 symbols | amod |
| 18 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitude | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 characters | cc |
| 20 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 symbols | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 display | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | display | present | this kakemono | upon a large scale; with a multitude of mystical symbols and characters; the footprints obj; usually property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme |
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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