In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 87

She was the most beautiful woman of her time, and so great a poet that she could move heaven by her verses, and cause rain to fall in time of drought.

Who acts: Komachi · What happens: be, move, cause, fall, verse · To what, where: beautiful woman, heaven, rain

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 (Komachi), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poet	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poet	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poet	amod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 poet	det
15	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 move	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 move	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 move	aux
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 poet	acl
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 move	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 verses	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 verses	nmod:poss
23	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 move	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cause	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cause	cc
26	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 move	conj
27	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cause	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fall	mark
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rain	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 time	case
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fall	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 drought	case
33	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Komachi	the beautiful woman and a great poet	time	a great poet conj	tree rules
2	move	could	Komachi	heaven		by Komachi's verses	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
3	cause	infinitive	Komachi not said here	rain			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient
4	fall	to-infinitive	Komachi not said here	rain not said here	time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	verse		Komachi				nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 87