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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 95

Sometimes the talk was of strange things seen or heard during his recent journey; sometimes it turned upon old legends or beliefs; sometimes it was about fortune-telling.

Who acts: talk, it, fugitive · What happens: be, see, hear, turn, journey · To what, where: strange things, old legends

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 (talk, it, fugitive), 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

advmoddetnsubjcopcaseamodaclccconjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscaseamodoblccconjpunctadvmodnsubjcopmarkcompoundpunctadvclpunctrootSometimesADVtheDETtalkNOUNwasAUXofADPstrangeADJthingsNOUNseenVERBorCCONJheardVERBduringADPhisPRONrecentADJjourneyNOUN;PUNCTsometimesADVitPRONturnedVERBuponADPoldADJlegendsNOUNorCCONJbeliefsNOUN;PUNCTsometimesADVitPRONwasAUXaboutSCONJfortuneNOUN-PUNCTtellingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind7 thingsadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 talkdet
3talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing7 thingsnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 thingscop
5ofofADP_7 thingscase
6strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos7 thingsamod
7thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
8seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 thingsacl
9ororCCONJ_10 heardcc
10heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 seenconj
11duringduringADP_14 journeycase
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 journeynmod:poss
13recentrecentADJDegree=Pos14 journeyamod
14journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing8 seenobl
15;;PUNCT_18 turnedpunct
16sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind18 turnedadvmod
17ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 turnednsubj
18turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 thingsparataxis
19uponuponADP_21 legendscase
20oldoldADJDegree=Pos21 legendsamod
21legendslegendNOUNNumber=Plur18 turnedobl
22ororCCONJ_23 beliefscc
23beliefsbeliefNOUNNumber=Plur21 legendsconj
24;;PUNCT_18 turnedpunct
25sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind31 tellingadvmod
26ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 tellingnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 tellingcop
28aboutaboutSCONJ_31 tellingmark
29fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing31 tellingcompound
30--PUNCT_29 fortunepunct
31tellingtellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 turnedadvcl
32..PUNCT_7 thingspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe talkof strange things; sometimes propertytree rules
2seeparticiplestrange things not said hereduring fugitive's recent journeyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3hearparticiplevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4turnpastitold legends or beliefssometimes propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon legend=Trajectory
5ispasttalkfortune compound; sometimes, tell propertytree rules
6journeyfugitivenom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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