In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 106

One of the paper-panes was red, one blue, one yellow; and the right half of the fourth pane was black, while the left half, uncolored, represented white.

Who acts: One, right half, left half · What happens: be, represent

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, right half, left half), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 red	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 panes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 panes	det
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 panes	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 paper	punct
6	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blue	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 blue	nummod
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yellow	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 yellow	nummod
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 black	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 black	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 half	det
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 half	amod
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 black	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 pane	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pane	det
22	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 pane	amod
23	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 half	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 black	cop
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 uncolored	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 uncolored	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 half	det
29	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 half	amod
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 uncolored	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 half	punct
32	uncolored	uncolored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 represented	punct
34	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 uncolored	conj
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 represented	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	One of the paper panes	red property	tree rules
2	be		One of the paper panes not said here		tree rules
3	be		One of the paper panes not said here		tree rules
4	is	past	the right half of the fourth pane	black property	tree rules
5	be		the left half		tree rules
6	represent	participle	the left half not said here	white property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 106