In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 36
“Sei-iki”(the Country of the West) was the old Japanese name for India; and thus the title might be rendered, “The Book about India.”
Who acts: Sei iki · What happens: be, render · To what, where: old Japanese name, 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: who acts (Sei iki), 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 iki | punct |
| 2 | Sei | sei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 iki | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sei | punct |
| 4 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nsubj |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 iki | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Country | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Country | det |
| 8 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 iki | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 West | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 West | det |
| 11 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Country | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Country | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 16 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 India | case |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 rendered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rendered | cc |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 rendered | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 title | det |
| 24 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 rendered | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 rendered | aux:pass |
| 27 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 name | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Book | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Book | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Book | det |
| 31 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rendered | obl |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 India | case |
| 33 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Book | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 rendered | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sei iki | the old Japanese name | for India | tree rules | |||
| 2 | render | might · passive | the title | the Book about India obl; thus property | vn give-13.1 «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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