In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 3
“What utter humbug!”
To what, where: utter humbug
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 humbug | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 humbug | nsubj |
| 3 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 humbug | amod |
| 4 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 humbug | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 humbug | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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