In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 63
[5] On some monuments and drawings there is a sort of disk made by a single line in spiral, on each toe,—together with the image of a small wheel.
Who acts: sort · What happens: be, make, sort, image · To what, where: 5, disk, small wheel
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 (sort), 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 | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 is | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 monuments | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 monuments | det |
| 6 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 5 | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drawings | cc |
| 8 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 monuments | conj |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sort | det |
| 12 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 disk | case |
| 14 | disk | disk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sort | nmod |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 disk | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 line | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 line | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 line | amod |
| 19 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 spiral | case |
| 21 | spiral | spiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 toe | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 toe | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 toe | det |
| 25 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 image | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 image | punct |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 image | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 image | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 image | det |
| 31 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 toe | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wheel | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wheel | det |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wheel | amod |
| 35 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 image | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a sort of disk | 5 on some monuments and drawings | there | each toe and the image of a small wheel parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | participle | disk not said here | by a single line in spiral | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | sort | disk | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | image | a small wheel | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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