In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 20

High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever widening as they climbed, a soundless flood of cloud, like the tide of a milky sea.

Who acts: High zones, zones, Stars, cloud, milky sea · What happens: pass, see, widen, climb, flood, tide · To what, where: soundless flood

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 (High zones, zones, Stars, cloud), 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	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zones	amod
2	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mist	case
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	parataxis
11	below	below	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 widening	punct
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 widening	advmod
15	widening	widen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 climbed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climbed	nsubj
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 widening	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flood	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flood	det
21	soundless	soundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flood	amod
22	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 cloud	case
24	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flood	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tide	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 tide	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tide	det
28	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sea	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sea	det
31	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sea	amod
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tide	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	High zones			of mist; zones = zone nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of mist=Initial_Location
2	see	past	zones = zone			below Stars = star	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	widen	gerund	zones = zone not said here		ever		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	climb	past	Stars = star	a soundless flood of cloud		like the tide of a milky sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flood		cloud				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
6	tide		a milky sea				nom tide «event intransitive»: of=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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In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 20