In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 19
Around the footprints there are carved (in most of the examples) twelve little bunches of leaves and buds of the _Bodai-jū_ (“Bodhidruma”), or Bodhi-tree of Buddhist legend.
What happens: carve · To what, where: twelve little bunches, footprints
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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 footprints | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 footprints | det |
| 3 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 carved | expl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carved | aux:pass |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 examples | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 most | case |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 examples | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 examples | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 examples | det |
| 12 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | obl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 examples | punct |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 bunches | nummod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bunches | amod |
| 16 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 leaves | case |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bunches | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buds | cc |
| 20 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bunches | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 jū | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 jū | det |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 jū | punct |
| 24 | Bodai | Bodai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 jū | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bodai | punct |
| 26 | jū | jū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buds | nmod |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bodhidruma | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bodhidruma | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bodhidruma | punct |
| 30 | Bodhidruma | Bodhidruma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bunches | appos |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bodhidruma | punct |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bodhidruma | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tree | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 tree | cc |
| 35 | Bodhi | Bodhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 tree | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Bodhi | punct |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carved | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 legend | case |
| 39 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 legend | amod |
| 40 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tree | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | present · passive | twelve little bunches of leaves and buds of the Bodai jū | the footprints; there | of the most examples; Bodhi tree of Buddhist legend obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
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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