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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 137

He therefore resolved to watch; and on the following night he stole on tiptoe to Shinzaburō’s dwelling, and looked through a chink in one of the sliding shutters.

Who acts: Tomozō · What happens: resolve, watch, follow, steal, look · To what, where: tiptoe

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), 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

nsubjadvmodmarkxcomppunctcccasedetamodoblnsubjconjcaseoblcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctccconjcasedetoblcaseoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootHePRONthereforeADVresolvedVERBtoPARTwatchVERB;PUNCTandCCONJonADPtheDETfollowingVERBnightNOUNhePRONstoleVERBonADPtiptoeNOUNtoADPShinzaburōPROPN’sPARTdwellingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlookedVERBthroughADPaDETchinkNOUNinADPoneNUMofADPtheDETslidingNOUNshuttersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 resolvednsubj
2thereforethereforeADV_3 resolvedadvmod
3resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 watchmark
5watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Inf3 resolvedxcomp
6;;PUNCT_13 stolepunct
7andandCCONJ_13 stolecc
8ononADP_11 nightcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 nightdet
10followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger11 nightamod
11nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing13 stoleobl
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 stolensubj
13stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 resolvedconj
14ononADP_15 tiptoecase
15tiptoetiptoeNOUNNumber=Sing13 stoleobl
16totoADP_19 dwellingcase
17ShinzaburōShinzaburōPROPNNumber=Sing19 dwellingnmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 Shinzaburōcase
19dwellingdwellingNOUNNumber=Sing13 stoleobl
20,,PUNCT_22 lookedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 lookedcc
22lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 resolvedconj
23throughthroughADP_25 chinkcase
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 chinkdet
25chinkchinkNOUNNumber=Sing22 lookedobl
26ininADP_27 onecase
27oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card22 lookedobl
28ofofADP_31 shutterscase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 shuttersdet
30slidingslidingNOUNNumber=Sing31 shutterscompound
31shuttersshutterNOUNNumber=Plur27 onenmod
32..PUNCT_3 resolvedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1resolvepastTomozōtherefore propertytree rules
2watchto-infinitiveTomozō not said herevn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4stealpastTomozōtiptoenightto Shinzaburō's dwellingvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Location
5lookpastTomozō not said herein one of the sliding shutters; through a chinkvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through chink=Theme

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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