In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 45
An outline of the footprints as engraved on one of the Japanese pedestals[3] should have some interest even for persons familiar with Indian sculptures of the S’rîpâda.
Who acts: outline · What happens: engrave, have · To what, where: footprints, interest
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 (outline), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 outline | det |
| 2 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 footprints | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 footprints | det |
| 5 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 outline | nmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 engraved | mark |
| 7 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 footprints | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 engraved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pedestals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pedestals | det |
| 12 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pedestals | amod |
| 13 | pedestals | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 3 | punct |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 pedestals | appos |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 3 | punct |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 interest | det |
| 20 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 persons | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 persons | case |
| 23 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 24 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 persons | amod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sculptures | case |
| 26 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sculptures | amod |
| 27 | sculptures | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 familiar | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 S’rîpâda | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 S’rîpâda | det |
| 30 | S’rîpâda | S'rîpâda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sculptures | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engrave | participle | the footprints not said here | on one of the Japanese pedestals | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | should | a outline of the footprints | some interest | persons obj | 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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