In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 102

“One day, in the period of greatest summer heat, he found himself overcome by drowsiness; and he lay down to rest, with his tile under his head.

Who acts: Shōko · What happens: find, overcome, lie down, rest · To what, where: Shōko

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 period	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 period	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 period	det
7	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 heat	case
9	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 heat	amod
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heat	compound
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 period	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 found	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 drowsiness	case
18	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overcome	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rest	mark
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lay	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tile	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 tile	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tile	nmod:poss
29	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rest	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tile	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	Shōko	Shōko	day		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	overcome in a quote	participle	Shōko not said here			by drowsiness	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	lie down in a quote	past	Shōko			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest in a quote	to-infinitive	Shōko not said here			with Shōko's tile under Shōko's head	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 102