In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 99
And with these words she fell forward upon the crouching girl, and died.
Who acts: beauty · What happens: fall, crouch, die
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | crouching | crouch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 died | cc |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | beauty | with this words; upon the crouching girl; forward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon girl=Location | ||||
| 2 | crouch | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | beauty not said here | 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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