In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 87

He was already an old man when I first saw him in Izumo,—certainly more than sixty years of age, but looking very much younger.

Who acts: Tōkyō, I · What happens: be, see, look · To what, where: old man, Tōkyō, Izumo

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 (Tōkyō, I), 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	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Izumo	case
13	Izumo	Izumo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 years	punct
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 sixty	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	19 sixty	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 more	fixed
19	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 man	obl:unmarked
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 age	case
22	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 years	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 younger	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 younger	cc
25	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 younger	nsubj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 younger	advmod
28	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 man	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tōkyō	a old man		year		tree rules
2	see	past	I	Tōkyō	Izumo		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	be							tree rules

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 87