In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 89

Midnight being the customary hour elsewhere, I supposed that it was the hour of farewell at Yaidzu also, and I rashly indulged in a nap after supper, expecting to wake up in time for the spectacle.

Who acts: I, dark · What happens: be, suppose, indulge, expect, wake up · To what, where: Midnight customary hour, hour, nap · 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 (I, dark), 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	Midnight	midnight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hour	amod
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hour	det
4	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hour	compound
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 supposed	obl:unmarked
6	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	5 hour	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 supposed	nsubj
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 hour	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hour	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hour	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 supposed	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 farewell	case
16	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hour	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Yaidzu	case
18	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 farewell	nmod
19	also	also	ADV	_	9 supposed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 indulged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 indulged	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 indulged	nsubj
23	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	24 indulged	advmod
24	indulged	indulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 supposed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 nap	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nap	det
27	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 indulged	obl
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 supper	case
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 indulged	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expecting	punct
31	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 indulged	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 wake	mark
33	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 expecting	xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 wake	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 time	case
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wake	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 spectacle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 spectacle	det
39	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wake	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		the Midnight customary hour			elsewhere property	tree rules
2	suppose	past	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	dark	the hour			of farewell at Yaidzu	tree rules
4	indulge	past	I		a nap	after supper	rashly property	tree rules
5	expect	gerund	I not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	wake up not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			time	for the spectacle	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 89

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 89