In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 89

But misfortunes visited her when her youth had passed; and, after having been reduced to the uttermost want, she became a beggar, and died at last upon the public highway, near Kyōto.

Who acts: misfortunes, youth, Komachi · What happens: visit, pass, reduce, want, become, die · To what, where: Komachi, uttermost, beggar, last

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 (misfortunes, youth, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 visited	cc
2	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visited	nsubj
3	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 visited	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 passed	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 youth	nmod:poss
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 visited	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reduced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reduced	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 reduced	mark
14	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 reduced	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 reduced	aux:pass
16	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 visited	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 uttermost	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 uttermost	det
19	uttermost	uttermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reduced	obl
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 uttermost	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reduced	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 beggar	det
25	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 died	cc
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 became	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 died	obl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 highway	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 highway	det
33	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 highway	amod
34	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 died	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Kyōto	punct
36	near	near	ADP	_	37 Kyōto	case
37	Kyōto	Kyōto	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 died	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	misfortunes	Komachi			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	pass	past · perfect	Komachi's youth				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reduce	gerund · perfect · passive	misfortunes not said here			to the uttermost goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: to uttermost=Goal
4	want	present	misfortunes not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	become	past	Komachi	a beggar			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	die	past	Komachi not said here		last	upon the public highway; near Kyōto	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 89