In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 7

One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was returning to his temple by way of Kita-no-Ōji, when he saw some boys ill-treating a kite.

Who acts: priest · What happens: return, see, treat · To what, where: boys, kite

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 (priest), 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	3 day	nummod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	compound
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl:unmarked
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 priest	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 priest	amod
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 visit	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 visit	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 visit	det
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 priest	appos
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 returning	aux
16	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 temple	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 temple	nmod:poss
19	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 way	case
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Kita	case
23	Kita	Kita	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 way	nmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Ōji	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 Ōji	det
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Ōji	punct
27	Ōji	Ōji	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Kita	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 returning	parataxis
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 boys	det
33	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saw	obj
34	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 treating	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ill	punct
36	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 saw	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 kite	det
38	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 treating	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 returning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive			day	to priest's temple result; by way of Kita and no Ōji	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to temple=Result
2	see	past	priest	some boys			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	treat	gerund	priest not said here	a kite			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kite=Recipient

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 7