In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 70

Again the priest sold it; and again it became the property of a young girl, who wore it only once.

Who acts: priest, robe, property · What happens: sell, become, wear · To what, where: robe

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 (priest, robe, property), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 sold	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
8	again	again	ADV	_	10 became	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 property	det
12	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wore	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 girl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 property	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wore	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wore	nsubj
19	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wore	obj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 once	advmod
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 wore	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the priest	robe	again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	become	past	robe		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	wear	past	the property of a young girl	robe		who nsubj; once property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 70