In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 39
But the Japanese foot and inch are considerably longer than the English.
What happens: be · To what, where: Japanese 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 foot | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 foot | det |
| 3 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foot | amod |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 inch | cc |
| 6 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 longer | cop |
| 8 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 foot | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 English | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 English | det |
| 12 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 longer | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | than the English; considerably, long property | 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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