In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 112
Poems are inlaid upon enamelled ware, cut upon bronzes, graven upon metal pipes, embroidered upon tobacco-pouches.
What happens: inlay, enamell, cut, grave, embroider · To what, where: Poems, bronzes, metal pipes, tobacco pouches
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 inlaid | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inlaid | aux:pass |
| 3 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 ware | case |
| 5 | enamelled | enamell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ware | amod |
| 6 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inlaid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 inlaid | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 bronzes | case |
| 10 | bronzes | bronze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 graven | punct |
| 12 | graven | grave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bronzes | acl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 pipes | case |
| 14 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pipes | compound |
| 15 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 graven | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 embroidered | punct |
| 17 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pipes | acl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 pouches | case |
| 19 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pouches | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tobacco | punct |
| 21 | pouches | pouch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 embroidered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inlaid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inlay | present · passive | Poems | upon enamelled ware | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | enamell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cut | participle | upon bronzes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | grave | participle | bronzes not said here | upon metal pipes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | embroider | participle | metal pipes not said here | tobacco pouches | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon pouch=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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