In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 76

Then the priest felt sure that there was some evil influence at work; and he told his acolytes to make a fire in the temple-court, and to burn the robe.

Who acts: priest, evil influence · What happens: feel, be, tell, make, burn · To what, where: acolytes, fire, temple court, robe · 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 (priest, evil influence), 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	4 felt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	ccomp
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 influence	det
10	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 influence	amod
11	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 work	case
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 influence	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 acolytes	nmod:poss
19	acolytes	acolyte	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 court	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 court	det
26	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 court	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 temple	punct
28	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 burn	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 burn	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 burn	mark
32	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 robe	det
34	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burn	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the priest				then	sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	be	past	some evil influence at work			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	priest		priest's acolytes				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent acolyte=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		a fire		the temple court			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
5	burn	to-infinitive	priest not said here	the robe					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 76