In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 79
By smell she makes her estimates of character: all her judgments are founded upon smells.
Who acts: faith · What happens: make, found, estimate, judge · To what, where: estimates, judgments, character
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: who acts (faith), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 smell | case |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 estimates | nmod:poss |
| 6 | estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 character | case |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 estimates | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 founded | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 judgments | det:predet |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 judgments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | judgments | judgment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 founded | aux:pass |
| 14 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 makes | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 smells | case |
| 16 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 founded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | faith | faith's estimates of character | by smell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estimate=Product | |||
| 2 | found | present · passive | faith's judgments | upon smells | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | estimate | faith | character | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | judge | faith | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=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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