In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 47
I got some information about them from the _Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan_,—a book used by the Jodo sect.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, use · To what, where: information, Kwan, book
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 information | det |
| 4 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 information | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Kwan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kwan | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Shō | punct |
| 10 | Shō | Shō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kwan | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ekō | punct |
| 12 | Ekō | Ekō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shō | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hō | punct |
| 14 | Hō | Hō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shō | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kwan | punct |
| 16 | Kwan | Kwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kwan | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 book | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 book | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Kwan | appos |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 book | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 sect | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sect | det |
| 25 | Jodo | Jodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sect | compound |
| 26 | sect | sect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | some information | the Kwan Shō and Ekō and Hō | about Footprints = footprint | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent information=Theme from kwan=Source | ||
| 2 | use | participle | a book not said here | by the Jodo sect | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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