In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 16
Probably, while waiting for the storm to pass, he had yielded to the drowsiness of cold, and the drift had risen over him as he slept.
Who acts: acquaintance, drift · What happens: wait, pass, yield, rise, sleep · To what, where: acquaintance
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acquaintance, drift), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 13 yielded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Probably | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | mark |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 yielded | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 storm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pass | mark |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 yielded | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 yielded | aux |
| 13 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 drowsiness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drowsiness | det |
| 16 | drowsiness | drowsiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yielded | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cold | case |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drowsiness | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 risen | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 risen | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 drift | det |
| 22 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 risen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 risen | aux |
| 24 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 yielded | parataxis |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 him | advmod |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 risen | obl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 slept | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 risen | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | acquaintance not said here | for the storm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | acquaintance not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | yield | past · perfect | acquaintance | to the drowsiness of cold; probably property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to drowsiness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | past · perfect | the drift | acquaintance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past | acquaintance | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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