In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 61
[5] The Japanese commentator explains the svastikâ as a symbol of “everlasting bliss.”
Who acts: 5 · What happens: explain · To what, where: svastikâ
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 (5), 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 | _ | 7 explains | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 commentator | det |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 commentator | amod |
| 6 | commentator | commentator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explains | nsubj |
| 7 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 svastikâ | det |
| 9 | svastikâ | svastikâ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explains | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 symbol | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 symbol | det |
| 12 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explains | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bliss | case |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bliss | punct |
| 15 | everlasting | everlasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bliss | compound |
| 16 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 symbol | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 explains | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | 5 | the svastikâ | as a symbol of everlasting bliss; the Japanese commentator nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent svastikâ=Topic |
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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