In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 15

There was no beaten path, nor any mark of former human visitation; and the way was over an endless heaping of tumbled fragments that rolled or turned beneath the foot.

Who acts: beaten path, way, tumbled fragments · What happens: be, beat, tumble, roll, turn, mark · To what, where: endless heaping, foot, former human visitation

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 (beaten path, way, tumbled fragments), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 path	det
4	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 path	amod
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mark	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 mark	cc
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 mark	det
9	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 path	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 visitation	case
11	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 visitation	amod
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 visitation	amod
13	visitation	visitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mark	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 heaping	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heaping	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heaping	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heaping	cop
19	over	over	ADP	_	22 heaping	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 heaping	det
21	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heaping	amod
22	heaping	heaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 fragments	case
24	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fragments	amod
25	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heaping	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 rolled	nsubj
27	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fragments	acl:relcl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rolled	conj
30	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	32 foot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foot	det
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no beaten path nor any mark of former human visitation		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beat	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the way		a endless heaping	of tumbled fragments	tree rules
4	tumble	participle					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	roll	past	tumbled fragments				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	past	tumbled fragments not said here		the foot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Trajectory
7	mark			former human visitation			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 15