In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 136

He feared that Shinzaburō, being very gentle and affectionate, might be made the dupe of some cunning wanton,—in which event the domestics would be the first to suffer.

Who acts: Tomozō, domestics · What happens: fear, be, make, suffer · To what, where: Shinzaburō, event · 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 (Tomozō, domestics), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
4	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gentle	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gentle	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 gentle	advmod
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Shinzaburō	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 affectionate	cc
10	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gentle	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Shinzaburō	punct
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feared	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dupe	det
16	dupe	dupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 wanton	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 wanton	det
19	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wanton	amod
20	wanton	wanton	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dupe	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 first	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 first	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 event	case
24	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	25 event	det
25	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 first	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 domestics	det
27	domestics	domestic	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 first	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 first	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 first	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 first	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 made	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 suffer	mark
33	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 first	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	Tomozō				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	gerund				gentle property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	make	might · passive		Shinzaburō		the dupe of some cunning wanton obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary dupe=Product
5	is	would	the domestics		which event	first property	tree rules
6	suffer	to-infinitive					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 136