In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 90
When she dies they will give her an humble funeral, and have a sutra recited on behalf of her spirit.
Who acts: faith, people · What happens: die, give, have, recite · To what, where: humble funeral, faith, sutra, behalf
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, people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 dies | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dies | nsubj |
| 3 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 funeral | det |
| 9 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 funeral | amod |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sutra | det |
| 15 | sutra | sutra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sutra | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 behalf | case |
| 18 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recited | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 spirit | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 behalf | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | faith | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | future | people | a humble funeral | faith | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient funeral=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | people not said here | a sutra | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sutra=Patient | ||||
| 4 | recite | participle | a sutra not said here | behalf of faith's spirit | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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