In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 130

And after that night they came every nighht for seven nights,—whether the weather were foul or fair,—always at the same hour.

Who acts: women, weather · What happens: come, be · To what, where: nighht

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 (women, weather), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 nighht	det
8	nighht	nighht	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 nights	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 foul	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 foul	punct
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 foul	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 weather	det
16	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 foul	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 foul	cop
18	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 fair	cc
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 foul	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hour	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 hour	punct
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 hour	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 hour	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hour	amod
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 foul	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	women = woman	every nighht	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nighht=Theme
2	is	past	the weather			foul property	tree rules
3	be		the weather not said here				tree rules

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 130

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 130