In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 59

She wore it whenever she went out; and when at home she would suspend it in her room, and try to imagine the form of her unknown beloved within it.

Who acts: image, form · What happens: wear, go out, suspend, try, imagine, belov · To what, where: robe, home

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 (image, form), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	obj
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 went	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wore	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 suspend	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 suspend	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 suspend	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suspend	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 suspend	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 suspend	aux
15	suspend	suspend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wore	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 suspend	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 room	nmod:poss
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suspend	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 try	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 try	cc
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 suspend	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 imagine	mark
24	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 try	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 form	det
26	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beloved	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 unknown	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 unknown	nmod:poss
29	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 form	nmod
30	beloved	belov	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 imagine	ccomp
31	within	within	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beloved	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	image	robe			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go out	past	image			whenever property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	suspend	would	image	robe	home	in image's room	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Destination
4	try	infinitive	image not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	imagine not said to happen	to-infinitive	image not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	belov	past	the form of image's unknown			within robe	tree rules

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 59