In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 21
That of Zōjōji,—with figures of divinities cut in low relief on its sides,—is the most ornate and costly of the four.
What happens: cut, be, figure · To what, where: divinities, low relief
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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Zōjōji | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Zōjōji | case |
| 3 | Zōjōji | Zōjōji | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zōjōji | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 figures | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 figures | case |
| 7 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Zōjōji | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 divinities | case |
| 9 | divinities | divinity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 figures | nmod |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 divinities | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 relief | case |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 relief | amod |
| 13 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sides | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 relief | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ornate | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ornate | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ornate | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ornate | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 ornate | advmod |
| 22 | ornate | ornate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 figures | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 costly | cc |
| 24 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ornate | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 four | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 four | det |
| 27 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 costly | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zōjōji | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | participle | divinities not said here | low relief on relief's sides | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ornate property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | of the four | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | figure | divinities | nom figure «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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