In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 74

A kind of slipway is improvised in a moment by laying flat wooden frames on the slope in a line; and over these frames the flat-bottomed vessels are hauled up or down by means of long ropes.

What happens: improvise, lay, bottom, haul up, mean · To what, where: kind, flat wooden frames, slope, bottomed vessels, frames

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 improvised	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 slipway	case
4	slipway	slipway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 improvised	aux:pass
6	improvised	improvise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 improvised	obl
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 laying	mark
11	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 improvised	advcl
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frames	amod
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frames	amod
14	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laying	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 slope	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 slope	det
17	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 line	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 line	det
20	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slope	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hauled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hauled	cc
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 frames	case
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 frames	det
25	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hauled	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 vessels	det
27	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bottomed	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 flat	punct
29	bottomed	bottom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 vessels	amod
30	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hauled	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hauled	aux:pass
32	hauled	haul	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 improvised	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 hauled	compound:prt
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 down	cc
35	down	down	ADV	_	32 hauled	conj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 means	case
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hauled	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 ropes	case
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ropes	amod
40	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 means	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 improvised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improvise	present · passive	a kind of slipway		moment		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	lay	gerund	flat wooden frames	the slope in a line			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frame=Theme on slope=Destination
3	bottom	participle					tree rules
4	haul up	present · passive	the bottomed vessels	this frames			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	mean	present				of long ropes	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 74

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 74