In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 22

And once the pilgrim-youth laid hand on a something smooth that was not stone,—and lifted it,—and dimly saw the cheekless gibe of death.

Who acts: something smooth, death · What happens: not be, lift, see, gibe · To what, where: stone, cheekless gibe

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 (something smooth, death), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 lifted	cc
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 hand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
4	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youth	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pilgrim	punct
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	compound
7	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lifted	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 smooth	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 smooth	det
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 smooth	compound
12	smooth	smooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stone	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stone	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stone	advmod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smooth	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lifted	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 lifted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lifted	cc
20	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lifted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
25	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	26 saw	advmod
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lifted	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gibe	det
28	cheekless	cheekless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gibe	amod
29	gibe	gibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 death	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gibe	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	a something smooth	stone		tree rules
2	lift	past		stone	once youth laid hand on a something smooth	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	see	past		the cheekless gibe of death	dimly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gibe=Stimulus
4	gibe		death			nom gibe «communication 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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The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 22