In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 111
Poems are stamped or worked upon letter-paper, envelopes, purses, mirror-cases, travelling-bags.
What happens: stamp, work · 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 stamped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stamped | aux:pass |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 worked | cc |
| 5 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stamped | conj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paper | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 letter | punct |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 envelopes | punct |
| 11 | envelopes | envelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paper | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 purses | punct |
| 13 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paper | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cases | punct |
| 15 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cases | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mirror | punct |
| 17 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paper | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bags | punct |
| 19 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bags | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 travelling | punct |
| 21 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cases | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | present · passive | Poems | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | work | participle | upon letter paper mirror cases and travelling bags and envelopes and purses | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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