In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 52

I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment there came to my recollection this legend of a similar robe said to have once caused the destruction of Yedo.

Who acts: I, legend, my · What happens: stop, look, come, say, have, cause · To what, where: recollection, destruction, Yedo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, legend, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stopped	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 crests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crests	det
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 crests	nummod
8	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 moment	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moment	amod
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 moment	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 recollection	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 recollection	nmod:poss
21	recollection	recollection	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 legend	det
23	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 robe	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 robe	det
26	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 robe	amod
27	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 legend	nmod
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 recollection	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 caused	advmod
32	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 have	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 destruction	det
34	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caused	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Yedo	case
36	Yedo	Yedo	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 destruction	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	I not said here				upon tint; at the five crests	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crest=Theme
3	come	past	I not said here		my recollection	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to recollection=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	this legend of a similar robe	my recollection not said here				tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive						tree rules
6	cause	participle		the destruction of Yedo			once property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition destruction=Patient
7	recollect		my					nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	destroy			Yedo				nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient

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 52