In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 35
[1] The Chinese title is pronounced by Japanese as _Sei-iki-ki_.
What happens: pronounce · To what, where: Chinese title
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 | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 pronounced | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 title | det |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 title | amod |
| 6 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 8 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Japanese | case |
| 10 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pronounced | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 ki | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 as | punct |
| 13 | Sei | sei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ki | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sei | punct |
| 15 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ki | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ki | punct |
| 17 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Japanese | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Japanese | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | present · passive | the Chinese title | by Japanese as iki ki Sei; 1 discourse | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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