In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 41
When the Buddha lifted up his foot all could perceive upon the sole of it the appearance of a wheel of a thousand spokes….
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: lift up, perceive · To what, where: foot, appearance
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 perceive | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 perceive | advmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 perceive | aux |
| 10 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 sole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sole | det |
| 13 | sole | sole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perceive | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sole | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 appearance | det |
| 17 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perceive | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wheel | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wheel | det |
| 20 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appearance | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 spokes | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 spokes | nummod |
| 24 | spokes | spoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wheel | nmod |
| 25 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 10 perceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | the Buddha | Buddha's foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perceive | could | the appearance of a wheel of thousand spokes | upon the sole of dhyâna; all property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus |
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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