In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 88

But at Yaidzu lanterns only are set afloat; and I was told that they would be launched after dark.

Who acts: Yaidzu lanterns · What happens: be, tell, launch · To what, where: I, lantern · 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 (Yaidzu lanterns), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 afloat	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 lanterns	case
3	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lanterns	compound
4	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 afloat	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 lanterns	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 afloat	cop
7	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 afloat	amod
8	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 afloat	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 launched	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 launched	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 launched	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 launched	aux:pass
18	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 dark	case
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 launched	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 afloat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Yaidzu lanterns			afloat property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	launch	would · passive		lantern	after dark		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 88