In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 111

To-day, being the first day of the Bon, we went to visit the temples; and we were on our way home—thus late—when this strange meeting happened.”

Who acts: we, strange meeting · What happens: be, go, visit, happen · To what, where: first day, temples, way

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, strange meeting), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 day	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Bon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bon	det
11	Bon	Bon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 visit	mark
16	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 temples	det
18	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 visit	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 way	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 way	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 way	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 way	cop
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 way	advmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 thus	punct
28	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 way	advmod
29	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 thus	advmod
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 happened	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 happened	advmod
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 meeting	det
33	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 meeting	amod
34	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 happened	nsubj
35	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 happened	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		the first day			of the Bon	tree rules
2	go	past	we			day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	visit	to-infinitive	we not said here	the temples				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Co-Agent
4	is	past	we		our way		our nmod:poss; home, thus property	tree rules
5	happen	past	this strange meeting					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 3, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 111