In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 109
Poems are painted upon shop-signs, panels, screens, and fans.
What happens: paint · To what, where: Poems, shop signs
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 | Poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | aux:pass |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 signs | case |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 signs | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 shop | punct |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 painted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 panels | punct |
| 9 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 signs | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screens | punct |
| 11 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 signs | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fans | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fans | cc |
| 14 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 painted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present · passive | Poems | shop signs and panels and screens | fans obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon sign=Destination |
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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