In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 129
The two women remained that night in the house of the young samurai, and returned to their own home a little before daybreak.
Who acts: two women · What happens: remain, return · To what, where: house, little
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 (two women), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 samurai | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 samurai | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 samurai | amod |
| 13 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 little | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 daybreak | case |
| 24 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the two women | the house of the young samurai | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | the two women not said here | a little | before daybreak | to women's own home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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