In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 100

While still a very young man, Shōko Setsu obtained a high position by reason of his learning and virtue; but he resigned it and went into solitude that he might give his whole time to study.

Who acts: Shōko · What happens: obtain, resign, go, give, study · To what, where: high position, position, solitude

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shōko), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 man	mark
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 obtained	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	Shōko	Shōko	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 obtained	nsubj
9	Setsu	Setsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Shōko	flat
10	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 position	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 position	amod
13	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 obtained	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 reason	case
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 position	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 learning	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 learning	nmod:poss
18	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reason	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 virtue	cc
20	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learning	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 resigned	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 resigned	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 resigned	nsubj
24	resigned	resign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 obtained	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 resigned	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 resigned	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 solitude	case
29	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 give	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 time	nmod:poss
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 study	mark
38	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 time	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	past	Shōko	a high position			by reason of Shōko's learning and virtue; a young man advcl	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
2	resign	past	Shōko	position				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go	past	Shōko not said here		solitude			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into solitude=Initial_Location
4	give	might	Shōko			time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	study	to-infinitive	Shōko not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 100