In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 27

And the more Shijō thought about the possible consequences of his introduction of Shinzaburō at the Iijima villa, the more he became afraid.

Who acts: more Shijō, Shijō · What happens: think, become, introduce · To what, where: Shinzaburō, Iijima villa

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 (more Shijō, Shijō), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Shijō	det
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 Shijō	amod
4	Shijō	Shijō	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 consequences	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 consequences	det
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 consequences	amod
9	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 introduction	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 introduction	nmod:poss
12	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consequences	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Shinzaburō	case
14	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 introduction	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 villa	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 villa	det
17	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 villa	compound
18	villa	villa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 introduction	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 became	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the more Shijō			about the possible consequences of Shijō's introduction of Shinzaburō at the Iijima villa	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about consequence=Topic
2	become	past	Shijō			afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	introduce		Shijō	Shinzaburō	the Iijima villa		nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient at=place

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 27