In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 150

There was yet scarcely any wind; but there must have been wild weather elsewhere,—and the breakers were steadily heightening.

Who acts: wind, breakers · What happens: be, have, heighten · To what, where: wild weather

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 (wind, breakers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 have	expl
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 weather	cop
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weather	amod
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	14 weather	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heightening	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 heightening	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heightening	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 breakers	det
20	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heightening	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heightening	aux
22	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	23 heightening	advmod
23	heightening	heighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 have	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	any wind		there	yet	scarcely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	must			there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	participle		wild weather			elsewhere property	tree rules
4	heighten	past · progressive	the breakers				steadily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 150

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 150