In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 103
Scarcely had he fallen asleep when a rat ran across his face and woke him with a start.
Who acts: Scarcely, rat · What happens: have, fall, run, wake · To what, where: face, 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 (Scarcely, rat), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fallen | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ran | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 woke | cc |
| 14 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 woke | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 start | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 start | det |
| 18 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woke | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | participle | Scarcely | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a rat | Shōko's face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across face=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | wake | past | Scarcely not said here | Shōko | with a start | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with start=Instrument |
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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