In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 90
On different sides of the structure,—near the top, and placed by rule so as to face certain points of the compass,—there are engraved five Sanscrit characters which are symbols of the Five Elemental Buddhas, together with scriptural and commemorative texts.
Who acts: five Sanscrit characters · What happens: place, face, engrave, be, point · To what, where: top, certain points, five Sanscrit characters, symbols, compass
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 (five Sanscrit characters), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 sides | case |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sides | amod |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 top | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 structure | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 structure | det |
| 6 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sides | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sides | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 top | punct |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placed | cc |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 top | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 rule | case |
| 16 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 face | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 face | mark |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 placed | advcl |
| 21 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 points | amod |
| 22 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 face | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 compass | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 compass | det |
| 25 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 points | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 engraved | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 engraved | punct |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 engraved | expl |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 engraved | aux:pass |
| 30 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 top | conj |
| 31 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 characters | nummod |
| 32 | Sanscrit | Sanscrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 characters | compound |
| 33 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 engraved | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 symbols | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 symbols | cop |
| 36 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 characters | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 texts | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 texts | det |
| 39 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 texts | nummod |
| 40 | Elemental | Elemental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 texts | nsubj |
| 41 | Buddhas | Buddhas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Elemental | flat |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 texts | punct |
| 43 | together | together | ADV | _ | 48 texts | advmod |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 texts | case |
| 45 | scriptural | scriptural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 texts | amod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 commemorative | cc |
| 47 | commemorative | commemorative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 scriptural | conj |
| 48 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 symbols | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | participle | the top on different sides of the structure not said here | by rule | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by rule=Destination | ||||
| 2 | face | infinitive | certain points of the compass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme point=Destination | |||||
| 3 | engrave | present · passive | five Sanscrit characters | there | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: character=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | five Sanscrit characters | symbols | of the Five scriptural texts Elemental | tree rules | |||
| 6 | point | the compass | nom point «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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