In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 110
Poems are printed upon towels, draperies, curtains, kerchiefs, silk-linings, and women’s crêpe-silk underwear.
What happens: print · To what, where: Poems
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 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 printed | aux:pass |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root | |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 towels | case |
| 5 | towels | towel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 printed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 draperies | punct |
| 7 | draperies | drapery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 towels | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 curtains | punct |
| 9 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 towels | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kerchiefs | punct |
| 11 | kerchiefs | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 towels | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 linings | punct |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 linings | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 silk | punct |
| 15 | linings | lining | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 towels | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 underwear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 underwear | cc |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crêpe | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 women | case |
| 20 | crêpe | crêpe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silk | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 crêpe | punct |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 underwear | compound |
| 23 | underwear | underwear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 printed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 printed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present · passive | Poems | upon towels and draperies and curtains and kerchiefs and silk linings; silk underwear obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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