In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 90

As it was thought shameful to bury her in the foul rags found upon her, some poor person gave a wornout summer-robe (_katabira_) to wrap her body in; and she was interred near Arashiyama at a spot still pointed out to travellers as the “Place of the Katabira” (_Katabira-no-Tsuchi_).

Who acts: foul rags, poor person, wornout · What happens: think, bury, find, give, robe, wrap in · To what, where: many, Komachi, body, Arashiyama, travellers

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 (foul rags, poor person, wornout), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 thought	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux:pass
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gave	advcl
5	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bury	mark
7	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shameful	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bury	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 rags	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rags	det
11	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rags	amod
12	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 person	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 robe	det
22	wornout	wornout	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 robe	nsubj
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 robe	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 robe	punct
25	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 katabira	punct
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 katabira	punct
28	katabira	katabira	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 robe	appos
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 katabira	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 katabira	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 wrap	mark
32	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gave	advcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 body	nmod:poss
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wrap	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	32 wrap	compound:prt
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 interred	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 interred	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 interred	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 interred	aux:pass
40	interred	inter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gave	conj
41	near	near	ADP	_	42 Arashiyama	case
42	Arashiyama	Arashiyama	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 interred	obl
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 spot	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 spot	det
45	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 interred	obl
46	still	still	ADV	_	47 pointed	advmod
47	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 interred	advcl
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 pointed	compound:prt
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 travellers	case
50	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 pointed	obl
51	as	as	ADP	_	54 Place	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Place	det
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	54 Place	punct
54	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pointed	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 Katabira	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Katabira	det
57	Katabira	Katabira	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Place	nmod
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	57 Katabira	punct
59	(	(	PUNCT	_	61 Katabira	punct
60	_	_	PUNCT	_	61 Katabira	punct
61	Katabira	Katabira	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Katabira	appos
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 Tsuchi	punct
63	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	65 Tsuchi	det
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 Tsuchi	punct
65	Tsuchi	Tsuchi	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Katabira	conj
66	_	_	PUNCT	_	61 Katabira	punct
67	)	)	PUNCT	_	61 Katabira	punct
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · passive		many				shameful property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bury	to-infinitive		Komachi					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	find	past	the foul rags					upon Komachi	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	some poor person						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	robe		wornout					katabira appos	tree rules
6	wrap in	to-infinitive	some poor person not said here	Komachi's body					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme
7	inter	past · passive		Komachi		Arashiyama		at a spot	tree rules
8	point out	past			travellers		still	as the Place of the Katabira	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traveller=Recipient

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 90