In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 13

The lady who preferred death to loss of honor, composed a poem before piercing her throat The samurai sentenced to die by his own hand, wrote a poem before performing _hara-kiri_.

Who acts: lady · What happens: prefer, compose, pierce, sentence, die, write · To what, where: death, poem, throat, samurai, hara kiri

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 composed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 preferred	nsubj
4	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lady	acl:relcl
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preferred	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 loss	case
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preferred	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 honor	case
9	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loss	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct
11	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 poem	det
13	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 composed	obj
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 piercing	mark
15	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 composed	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 throat	nmod:poss
17	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 piercing	obj
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 samurai	det
19	samurai	samurai	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 piercing	obj
20	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 samurai	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 die	mark
22	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sentenced	xcomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 die	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wrote	punct
28	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 composed	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 poem	det
30	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrote	obj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 performing	mark
32	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 wrote	advcl
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 kiri	punct
34	hara	hara	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kiri	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 hara	punct
36	kiri	kiri	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 performing	obl
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 wrote	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 composed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	past	the lady	death	to loss of honor	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
2	compose	past	the lady	a poem		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Result
3	pierce	gerund	the lady not said here	lady's throat	the samurai obj	tree rules
4	sentence	participle		the samurai not said here		tree rules
5	die	to-infinitive			by misfortune's own hand	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	write	past		a poem		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme
7	perform	gerund		hara kiri		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 13