In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 80

Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and the conflagration spread from street to street, and from district into district, till nearly the whole of the city was consumed.

Who acts: sea wind, conflagration · What happens: rise, blow, spread, consume · To what, where: destruction, further streets, street

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 (sea wind, conflagration), 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	9 blew	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wind	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sea	punct
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blew	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rising	punct
7	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wind	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blew	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 streets	case
12	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 streets	amod
13	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blew	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spread	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spread	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 conflagration	det
17	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	nsubj
18	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blew	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 street	case
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 street	case
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 district	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 district	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 district	case
26	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 district	case
28	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 whole	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 whole	mark
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 whole	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 whole	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 consumed	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 city	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 city	det
36	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 whole	obl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 consumed	aux:pass
38	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 spread	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	a sea wind not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blow	past	a sea wind	destruction	further streets	then		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent destruction=Material into street=Product
3	spread	past	the conflagration		street		to street; from district; into district	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into district=Destination
4	consume	past · passive						vn consume-66 «NP V NP»

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 80