In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 51

As he sorrowfully turned his steps homeward, the goblin-monk once more appeared before him, and said to him in tones of reproach and pain:—“Because you did not keep the promise which you made to me, and heedlessly allowed your feelings to overcome you, the Gohotendó, who is the Guardian of the Doctrine, swooped down suddenly from heaven upon us, and smote us in great anger, crying out, ‘_How do ye dare thus to deceive a pious person?

Who acts: sadness, promise, feelings, Gohotendó, ye · What happens: turn, appear, say, not keep, make, allow · To what, where: steps homeward, sadness, tones, promise, me, feelings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sadness, promise, feelings, Gohotendó), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
3	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homeward	nmod:poss
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 homeward	compound
7	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 monk	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monk	det
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 monk	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 goblin	punct
12	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 homeward	conj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 appeared	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 appeared	advmod
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	advcl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appeared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 tones	case
24	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 reproach	case
26	reproach	reproach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tones	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pain	cc
28	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reproach	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	74 smote	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	74 smote	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	74 smote	punct
32	Because	because	SCONJ	_	36 keep	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 keep	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 keep	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 keep	advmod
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	74 smote	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 promise	det
38	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keep	obj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 made	nsubj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 made	nsubj
41	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 promise	acl:relcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 made	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 allowed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 allowed	cc
46	heedlessly	heedlessly	ADV	_	47 allowed	advmod
47	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 made	conj
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 feelings	nmod:poss
49	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 allowed	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 overcome	mark
51	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 allowed	xcomp
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 overcome	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Gohotendó	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Gohotendó	det
55	Gohotendó	Gohotendó	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 allowed	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Guardian	punct
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 Guardian	nsubj
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 Guardian	cop
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Guardian	det
60	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Gohotendó	appos
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 Doctrine	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 Doctrine	det
63	Doctrine	Doctrine	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Guardian	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 swooped	punct
65	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 made	conj
66	down	down	ADV	_	65 swooped	advmod
67	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	65 swooped	advmod
68	from	from	ADP	_	69 heaven	case
69	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 swooped	obl
70	upon	upon	ADP	_	71 us	case
71	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 swooped	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 smote	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 smote	cc
74	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 tones	parataxis
75	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	74 smote	iobj
76	in	in	ADP	_	78 anger	case
77	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 anger	amod
78	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 smote	obl
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 crying	punct
80	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	74 smote	conj
81	out	out	ADP	_	80 crying	compound:prt
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 dare	punct
83	‘	'	PUNCT	_	88 dare	punct
84	_	_	PUNCT	_	88 dare	punct
85	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	88 dare	advmod
86	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	88 dare	aux
87	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	88 dare	nsubj
88	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	74 smote	conj
89	thus	thus	ADV	_	88 dare	advmod
90	to	to	PART	_	91 deceive	mark
91	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	88 dare	xcomp
92	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	94 person	det
93	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	94 person	amod
94	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 deceive	obj
95	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	sadness	sadness's steps homeward and the goblin monk				sorrowfully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme
2	appear	past	sadness not said here				before sadness	once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	say speech: ask	past			sadness	tones of reproach and pain			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	not keep in a quote	past · do-support	sadness	the promise					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	make in a quote	past	the promise		me			you nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	allow in a quote	participle	the promise not said here	your feelings				the Gohotendó obl; heedlessly property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer feeling=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	overcome not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	your feelings not said here	sadness					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
8	is a in a quote	present	the Gohotendó	the Guardian				of the Doctrine	tree rules
9	swoop down in a quote	past	the promise not said here			heaven		upon us; down, suddenly property	tree rules
10	smote in a quote	infinitive			us	great anger			tree rules
11	cry out speech: express in a quote	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	dare in a quote	present · do-support	ye					thus property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
13	deceive in a quote	to-infinitive	ye not said here	a pious person					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
14	intonate			reproach and pain					nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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 51

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 51