In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 103
As for audible poetry, wherever there is working there is singing.
What happens: work, be, sing
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 poetry | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | audible | audible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 poetry | amod |
| 4 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 working | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poetry | punct |
| 6 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 working | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 working | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 working | aux |
| 9 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 working | ccomp |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 is | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · progressive | there | as audible poetry; wherever property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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