In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 27
The length of the impressions is one foot and eight inches,[2] and the width of them a little more than six inches.
Who acts: length · What happens: be · To what, where: one foot
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: who acts (length), 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 length | det |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 impressions | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 impressions | det |
| 5 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 length | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 foot | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 foot | nummod |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 inches | cc |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 inches | nummod |
| 11 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 foot | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inches | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 2 | punct |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 inches | discourse |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 2 | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 more | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 width | det |
| 18 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 width | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 little | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 more | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 six | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 more | fixed |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 inches | nummod |
| 26 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 foot | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the length of the impressions | one foot and eight inches and six inches | eight inches conj; six inches conj | 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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