In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 47

But, only a few days ago, happening to visit Iijima’s house, I heard, to my great surprise, that his daughter had died, and that her servant O-Yoné had also died.

Who acts: few days, I, daughter, servant, my · What happens: happen, visit, hear, die, surprise · To what, where: house, few days

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 (few days, I, daughter, servant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 days	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 days	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 days	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 days	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happening	punct
9	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 days	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 happening	advcl
12	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Iijima	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happening	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprise	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 surprise	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 surprise	nmod:poss
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 surprise	amod
22	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 died	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 died	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 died	aux
28	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 heard	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 died	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 died	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 died	mark
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 servant	nmod:poss
33	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 died	nsubj
34	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	36 Yoné	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Yoné	punct
36	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 servant	nmod
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 died	aux
38	also	also	ADV	_	39 died	advmod
39	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 heard	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	gerund	a few days not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive	a few days not said here	Iijima's house		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent
3	hear	past	I		my great surprise conj	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	die	past · perfect	father's daughter			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	die	past · perfect	daughter's servant of Yoné			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	surprise		my			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 47

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 47