In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 24
It was designed after a similar monument in China, said to be the faithful copy of an Indian original.
What happens: design, say, be · To what, where: specimen, faithful copy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 designed | aux:pass |
| 3 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 monument | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 monument | det |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monument | amod |
| 7 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 designed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 monument | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 designed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 copy | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 copy | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 copy | det |
| 15 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 copy | amod |
| 16 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 original | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 original | det |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 original | amod |
| 20 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 copy | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | specimen | after a similar monument in China | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the faithful copy | of a Indian original | tree rules |
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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