In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 135
One night, at a very late hour, Tomozō heard the voice of a woman in his master’s apartment; and this made him uneasy.
Who acts: Tomozō, this · What happens: hear, make · To what, where: voice, Tomozō
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 (Tomozō, this), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hour | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 late | advmod |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hour | amod |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 10 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 apartment | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 master | case |
| 21 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Tomozō | the voice of a woman in Tomozō's master's apartment | night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | this | Tomozō | uneasy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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