In Ghostly Japan, A Memory in Spring, sentence 1

_She, who, departing hence, left to the flowers of the plum-tree, Blooming beside our eaves, the charm of her youth and beauty, And maiden pureness of heart, to quicken their flush and fragrance,— Ah! where does she dwell to-day, our dear little vanished sister?

Who acts: She · What happens: depart, leave, bloom, quicken, dwell, vanish · To what, where: maiden pureness, flowers, eaves, flush

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, A Memory in Spring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 departing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 departing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
6	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	hence	hence	ADV	_	6 departing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 departing	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flowers	det
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
15	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 plum	punct
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Blooming	punct
19	Blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 departing	conj
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 eaves	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eaves	nmod:poss
22	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Blooming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 charm	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 charm	det
25	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eaves	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 youth	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 youth	nmod:poss
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 charm	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beauty	cc
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 youth	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pureness	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 pureness	cc
33	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pureness	amod
34	pureness	pureness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 departing	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 heart	case
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pureness	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 quicken	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 quicken	mark
39	quicken	quicken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 departing	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 flush	nmod:poss
41	flush	flush	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 quicken	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fragrance	cc
43	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flush	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
45	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
46	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 departing	discourse
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 dwell	advmod
49	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 dwell	aux
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 dwell	nsubj
51	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 departing	advcl
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 day	case
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 to	punct
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dwell	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 sister	punct
56	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 sister	nmod:poss
57	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 sister	amod
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 sister	amod
59	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 sister	amod
60	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 departing	obl
61	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 departing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	gerund	She	maiden pureness of heart			our dear little vanished sister obl; who nsubj; hence property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle	She not said here		the flowers of the plum tree			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flower=Initial_Location
3	bloom	gerund	She not said here		our eaves			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside eave=Location
4	quicken	to-infinitive	She not said here	youth's flush and fragrance				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flush=Patient
5	dwell	present · do-support	she			day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	vanish	participle						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, A Memory in Spring, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, A Memory in Spring, sentence 1