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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 140

Her back was turned to him;—he only observed that she was very slim, and that she appeared to be very young,—judging from the fashion of her dress and hair.

Who acts: Tomozō, master · What happens: turn, observe, be, appear, judge · To what, where: back, Tomozō, fashion

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), 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

nmod:possnsubj:passaux:passcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjadvmodparataxismarknsubjcopadvmodadvclpunctccmarknsubjconjmarkcopadvmodadvclpunctpunctadvclcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodccconjpunctrootHerPRONbackNOUNwasAUXturnedVERBtoADPhimPRON;PUNCT—PUNCThePRONonlyADVobservedVERBthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXveryADVslimADJ,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJshePRONappearedVERBtoPARTbeAUXveryADVyoungADJ,PUNCT—PUNCTjudgingVERBfromADPtheDETfashionNOUNofADPherPRONdressNOUNandCCONJhairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 backnmod:poss
2backbackNOUNNumber=Sing4 turnednsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 turnedaux:pass
4turnedturnVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5totoADP_6 himcase
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 turnedobl
7;;PUNCT_4 turnedpunct
8—-PUNCT_11 observedpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 observednsubj
10onlyonlyADV_11 observedadvmod
11observedobserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 turnedparataxis
12thatthatSCONJ_16 slimmark
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 slimnsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 slimcop
15veryveryADV_16 slimadvmod
16slimslimADJDegree=Pos11 observedadvcl
17,,PUNCT_21 appearedpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 appearedcc
19thatthatSCONJ_21 appearedmark
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 appearednsubj
21appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 observedconj
22totoPART_25 youngmark
23bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 youngcop
24veryveryADV_25 youngadvmod
25youngyoungADJDegree=Pos21 appearedadvcl
26,,PUNCT_28 judgingpunct
27—-PUNCT_28 judgingpunct
28judgingjudgeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 appearedadvcl
29fromfromADP_31 fashioncase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 fashiondet
31fashionfashionNOUNNumber=Sing28 judgingobl
32ofofADP_34 dresscase
33herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 dressnmod:poss
34dressdressNOUNNumber=Sing31 fashionnmod
35andandCCONJ_36 haircc
36hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing34 dressconj
37..PUNCT_4 turnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turnpast · passivemaster's backTomozōvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to he=Result
2observepastTomozōvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3ispastmasterslim propertytree rules
4appearpastmastervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5isto-infinitivemaster not said hereyoung propertytree rules
6judgegerundmaster not said herethe fashion of master's dress and hairvn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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