In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 68

Then she fell sick, and began to act strangely,—crying out that she was haunted by the vision of a beautiful young man, and that for love of him she was going to die.

Who acts: form, vision, love · What happens: fall, begin, act, cry out, haunt, go · To what, where: form, Namu

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 (form, vision, love), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 act	mark
9	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	9 act	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 crying	compound:prt
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 haunted	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 haunted	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 haunted	aux:pass
18	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 crying	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 vision	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 vision	det
21	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 haunted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 man	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vision	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 going	cc
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 love	det
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 love	case
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 going	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fell	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 die	mark
38	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 going	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	form		then	sick property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	form not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	act	to-infinitive	form not said here			strangely property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry out speech: express	gerund	form not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	haunt	past · passive	the vision of a beautiful young man	form			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
6	go	past · progressive	that love of Namu			form nsubj	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	die	to-infinitive	that love of Namu not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	love			Namu			nom love «feeling 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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The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 68