In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 59

And the old man retired hastily,—anxious to avoid further converse about the painful event for which he felt himself to have been unwittingly responsible.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: retire, avoid, feel, be · To what, where: man

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 (old man, man), 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 retired	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 retired	nsubj
5	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	5 retired	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anxious	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 anxious	punct
9	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 retired	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 avoid	mark
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 anxious	advcl
12	further	further	ADV	_	13 converse	advmod
13	converse	converse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 avoid	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 event	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 event	det
16	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 event	amod
17	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 converse	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 felt	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 event	acl:relcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 felt	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	27 responsible	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 responsible	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 responsible	cop
26	unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	_	27 responsible	advmod
27	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 retired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retire	participle	the old man		hastily property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	avoid	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		converse property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	man	man	for the painful event	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Location for which=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive · perfect	man not said here		responsible, unwittingly property	tree rules

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 59