In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 108

He found that along the line of fracture seventeen characters had been written within the clay before the tile had been baked; and the characters read thus: ‘_In the Year of the Hare, in the fourth month, on the seventeenth day, at the Hour of the Serpent, this tile, after serving as a pillow, will be thrown at a rat and broken.

Who acts: Shōko, characters · What happens: find, write, bake, read, serve, throw · To what, where: seventeen characters, tile, rat · Speech: someone speaks here

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, characters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	ADV	_	2 found	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 line	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 line	det
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fracture	case
8	fracture	fracture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	nmod
9	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 characters	nummod
10	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 written	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 written	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 written	aux:pass
13	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	ccomp
14	within	within	ADP	_	16 clay	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clay	det
16	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 written	obl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 baked	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tile	det
19	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 baked	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 baked	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 baked	aux:pass
22	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 written	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 read	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 characters	det
26	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 read	nsubj
27	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
28	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 read	advmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Year	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Year	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 Year	punct
32	In	in	ADP	_	34 Year	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Year	det
34	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 found	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Hare	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Hare	det
37	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Year	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 month	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 month	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 month	det
41	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 month	amod
42	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Year	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 day	punct
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 day	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 day	det
46	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 day	compound
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Year	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Hour	punct
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 Hour	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Hour	det
51	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Year	appos
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 Serpent	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Serpent	det
54	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Hour	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 tile	punct
56	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 tile	det
57	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Year	appos
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 serving	punct
59	after	after	SCONJ	_	60 serving	mark
60	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
61	as	as	ADP	_	63 pillow	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 pillow	det
63	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 serving	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 thrown	punct
65	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 thrown	aux
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 thrown	aux:pass
67	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	parataxis
68	at	at	ADP	_	70 rat	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 rat	det
70	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 thrown	obl
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 broken	cc
72	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 thrown	conj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Shōko			the Year of the Hare in the fourth month	along the line of fracture; that property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	write	past · perfect · passive		seventeen characters			within the clay	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	bake	past · perfect · passive		the tile				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
4	read	present	the characters				thus property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	serve	gerund	Shōko not said here				as a pillow	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as pillow=Attribute
6	throw	future · passive			a rat			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: at rat=Destination
7	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/108/

🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 108