In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 23
The first _Butsu-soku-séki_ made in Japan was that erected at Tōdaiji, in Nara.
What happens: make, erect · To what, where: Butsu, Japan, Tōdaiji
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 erected | punct |
| 4 | Butsu | Butsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Butsu | punct |
| 6 | soku | soku | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Butsu | dep |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 séki | punct |
| 8 | séki | séki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soku | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Butsu | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Japan | case |
| 12 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 erected | aux:pass |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 erected | mark |
| 15 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 first | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Tōdaiji | case |
| 17 | Tōdaiji | Tōdaiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 erected | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nara | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Nara | case |
| 20 | Nara | Nara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 erected | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Butsu not said here | Japan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | erect | past · passive | Butsu | Tōdaiji | in Nara | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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