In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 184

The six take their places in line, or in a half-circle—if the room be small; but they do not sit close together, for reasons which will presently appear.

Who acts: six, room, rules, reasons · What happens: take, be, not sit, appear · To what, where: places, line

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 (six, room, rules, reasons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 six	det
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 places	nmod:poss
5	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 line	case
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 circle	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 circle	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 circle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 circle	det
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 circle	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 small	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 small	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 small	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 small	cop
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sit	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 sit	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sit	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sit	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sit	advmod
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 small	parataxis
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 sit	advmod
28	together	together	ADV	_	26 sit	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reasons	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 reasons	case
31	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sit	parataxis
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 appear	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 appear	aux
34	presently	presently	ADV	_	35 appear	advmod
35	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 reasons	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	the six	rules's places	line	in a half circle	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in line=Location
2	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	the room			small property	tree rules
3	not sit	present · do-support	rules = rule			reasons parataxis; close, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	appear	future	reasons			presently 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 184

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 184