In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 31
Then he said to his disciple Anan [_Ânanda_]: ‘In this place I leave the impression of my feet, to remain for a last token.
Who acts: Buddha, I · What happens: say, leave, remain, impress · To what, where: disciple, impression, place, feet · 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: who acts (Buddha, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 disciple | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 6 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | Anan | Anan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disciple | appos |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ânanda | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ânanda | punct |
| 10 | Ânanda | Ânanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Anan | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ânanda | punct |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ânanda | punct |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 15 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 impression | det |
| 21 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 impression | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remain | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 remain | mark |
| 27 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 token | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 token | det |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 token | amod |
| 31 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remain | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Buddha | Buddha's disciple | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to disciple=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | present | I | the impression of my feet | this place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent impression=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | I not said here | for a last token | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | impress | my feet | nom impression «cognition 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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