In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 9

_Yado_ literally means a lodging, shelter, inn; and the word is applied often to those wayside resting-houses at which Japanese travellers halt during a journey.

Who acts: Yado, wayside, Japanese travellers · What happens: mean, apply, rest, halt · To what, where: lodging, word, houses

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yado, wayside, Japanese travellers), 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	_	2 Yado	punct
2	Yado	Yado	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Yado	punct
4	literally	literally	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lodging	det
7	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shelter	punct
9	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lodging	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inn	punct
11	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lodging	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 applied	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 applied	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 applied	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 applied	aux:pass
17	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	conj
18	often	often	ADV	_	17 applied	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wayside	case
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 wayside	det
21	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 applied	obl
22	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 wayside	acl
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 houses	punct
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 resting	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 halt	obl
27	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 travellers	amod
28	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 halt	nsubj
29	halt	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 houses	acl:relcl
30	during	during	ADP	_	32 journey	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 journey	det
32	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 halt	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Yado	a lodging and shelter and inn			literally property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic
2	apply	present · passive		the word			to that wayside; often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	rest	gerund	that wayside not said here	houses				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme
4	halt	present	Japanese travellers		houses	during a journey		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 9