In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 21

Hour after hour they climbed;—and forms invisible yielded to their tread with dull soft crashings;—and faint cold fires lighted and died at every breaking.

Who acts: Stars · What happens: climb, form, yield, light, die, tread · To what, where: faint cold fires, breaking

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 (Stars), 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	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl:unmarked
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 hour	case
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hour	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 forms	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forms	cc
9	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
10	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forms	xcomp
11	yielded	yield	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 invisible	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 tread	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tread	nmod:poss
14	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yielded	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 crashings	case
16	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crashings	amod
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crashings	amod
18	crashings	crashing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tread	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 fires	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fires	cc
22	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fires	amod
23	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fires	amod
24	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbed	obl
25	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fires	acl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lighted	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 breaking	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 breaking	det
30	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Stars = star	faint cold fires		hour		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	form	present	Stars = star not said here				invisible property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	yield	participle					to Stars's tread with dull soft crashings	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tread=Theme
4	light	participle		faint cold fires not said here				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	die	past			every breaking			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	tread		Stars = star				with dull soft crashings	nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 21