In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 138

By the glow of a night-lantern within the sleeping-room, he was able to perceive that his master and a strange woman were talking together under the mosquito-net.

Who acts: Tomozō, master, night lantern · What happens: be, perceive, talk, glow · To what, where: mosquito net

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, master, night lantern), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 glow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glow	det
3	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 able	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 lantern	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lantern	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lantern	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
8	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	nmod
9	within	within	ADP	_	13 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 room	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sleeping	punct
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lantern	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 perceive	mark
19	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 talking	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talking	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 woman	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 master	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 talking	aux
28	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 perceive	advcl
29	together	together	ADV	_	28 talking	advmod
30	under	under	ADP	_	34 net	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 net	det
32	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 net	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 mosquito	punct
34	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tomozō		by the glow of a night lantern within the sleeping room; able property	tree rules
2	perceive	to-infinitive	Tomozō not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	talk	past · progressive	Tomozō's master and a strange woman	the mosquito net	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	glow		a night lantern within the sleeping room			nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent

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 138

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 138