In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 16

Sometimes a mass dislodged would clatter down with hollow echoings;—sometimes the substance trodden would burst like an empty shell….

Who acts: mass, substance · What happens: dislodge, clatter down, tread, burst · To what, where: mass, substance

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 (mass, substance), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 clatter	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mass	det
3	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clatter	nsubj
4	dislodged	dislodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mass	acl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 clatter	aux
6	clatter	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 clatter	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 echoings	case
9	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 echoings	amod
10	echoings	echoing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clatter	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 clatter	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 burst	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 burst	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 substance	det
15	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burst	nsubj
16	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 substance	acl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burst	aux
18	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clatter	parataxis
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 shell	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shell	det
21	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shell	amod
22	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burst	obl
23	….	..	PUNCT	_	18 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dislodge	participle		a mass not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	clatter down	would	a mass		with hollow echoings; sometimes property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with echoing=Theme
3	tread	participle		the substance not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burst	would	the substance		like a empty shell; sometimes property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 16