In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 13

Iijima took a second wife when his daughter was about sixteen; and, finding that O-Tsuyu could not be happy with her mother-in-law, he had a pretty villa built for the girl at Yanagijima, as a separate residence, and gave her an excellent maidservant, called O-Yoné, to wait upon her.

Who acts: Iijima, daughter, name, O Tsuyu · What happens: take, be, find, not be, have, build · To what, where: second wife, sixteen, pretty villa, excellent maidservant, Tsuyu · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Iijima, daughter, name, O Tsuyu), 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	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sixteen	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sixteen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sixteen	cop
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 sixteen	advmod
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 took	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
15	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 had	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 happy	mark
17	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Tsuyu	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 O	punct
19	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 happy	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 happy	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 happy	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 happy	cop
23	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 finding	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 mother	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 happy	obl
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 law	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 law	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 in	punct
30	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mother	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 villa	det
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 villa	amod
36	villa	villa	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 villa	acl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 girl	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 built	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 Yanagijima	case
42	Yanagijima	Yanagijima	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 girl	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 residence	punct
44	as	as	ADP	_	47 residence	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 residence	det
46	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 residence	amod
47	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 gave	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 gave	cc
50	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 gave	iobj
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 maidservant	det
53	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 maidservant	amod
54	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 gave	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 called	punct
56	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 maidservant	acl
57	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 called	xcomp
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 Yoné	punct
59	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 O	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 wait	punct
61	to	to	PART	_	62 wait	mark
62	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 gave	conj
63	upon	upon	ADP	_	64 her	case
64	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 wait	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Iijima		a second wife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
2	is a	past	name's daughter	sixteen		about property	tree rules
3	find	gerund	name not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not is	could	O Tsuyu			with Tsuyu's mother in law; happy property	tree rules
5	have	past	name	a pretty villa		as a separate residence	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villa=Patient
6	build	participle		a pretty villa not said here		for the girl at Yanagijima	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for girl=Beneficiary
7	give	past		a excellent maidservant	Tsuyu		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient maidservant=Theme
8	call	participle		a excellent maidservant not said here		O and Yoné xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	wait	to-infinitive				upon Tsuyu	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location

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 13

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 13