In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 74

Once more it was purchased by a girl and once more worn; and the wearer pined and died.

Who acts: girl, wearer · What happens: purchase, pine, die · 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 (girl, wearer), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 purchased	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 purchased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 purchased	aux:pass
5	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purchased	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worn	cc
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 worn	advmod
12	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pined	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wearer	det
16	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pined	nsubj
17	pined	pine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 purchased	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pined	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 purchased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	purchase	past · passive	a girl	robe	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	pine	past	the wearer		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	die	past	the wearer not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 74