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In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 143

He was wont to ascend to the roof of his house on the eve of the day of the entertainment, and to remain standing there all night, holding a censer of precious incense.

Who acts: Sudatta · What happens: be, ascend, remain, stand, hold · To what, where: eve, censer

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sudatta), 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

nsubjcopmarkxcompcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctccmarkparataxisxcompadvmoddetobl:unmarkedpunctadvcldetobjcaseamodnmodpunctrootHePRONwasAUXwontADJtoPARTascendVERBtoADPtheDETroofNOUNofADPhisPRONhouseNOUNonADPtheDETeveNOUNofADPtheDETdayNOUNofADPtheDETentertainmentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTremainVERBstandingVERBthereADVallDETnightNOUN,PUNCTholdingVERBaDETcenserNOUNofADPpreciousADJincenseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wontnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wontcop
3wontwontADJDegree=Posrootroot
4totoPART_5 ascendmark
5ascendascendVERBVerbForm=Inf3 wontxcomp
6totoADP_8 roofcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 roofdet
8roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing5 ascendobl
9ofofADP_11 housecase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 housenmod:poss
11househouseNOUNNumber=Sing8 roofnmod
12ononADP_14 evecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 evedet
14eveeveNOUNNumber=Sing5 ascendobl
15ofofADP_17 daycase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 daydet
17daydayNOUNNumber=Sing14 evenmod
18ofofADP_20 entertainmentcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 entertainmentdet
20entertainmententertainmentNOUNNumber=Sing17 daynmod
21,,PUNCT_24 remainpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 remaincc
23totoPART_24 remainmark
24remainremainVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 wontparataxis
25standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger24 remainxcomp
26therethereADVPronType=Dem25 standingadvmod
27allallDETPronType=Tot28 nightdet
28nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing25 standingobl:unmarked
29,,PUNCT_30 holdingpunct
30holdingholdVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 standingadvcl
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 censerdet
32censercenserNOUNNumber=Sing30 holdingobj
33ofofADP_35 incensecase
34preciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos35 incenseamod
35incenseincenseNOUNNumber=Sing32 censernmod
36..PUNCT_3 wontpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastSudattawont propertytree rules
2ascendto-infinitiveSudatta not said herethe eve of the day of the entertainmentto the roof of Sudatta's housevn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to roof=Initial_Location
3remainto-infinitivetree rules
4standgerundtherenightvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5holdgerunda censer of precious incensevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent censer=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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