In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 61
Shinzaburō long remained stupefied with grief by the news of O-Tsuyu’s death.
Who acts: news, O Tsuyu · What happens: stupefy, die · To what, where: Shinzaburō
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 (news, O Tsuyu), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stupefied | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stupefied | advmod |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stupefied | aux:pass |
| 4 | stupefied | stupefy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stupefied | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stupefied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 11 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tsuyu | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 O | punct |
| 13 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Tsuyu | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 news | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupefied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stupefy | past · passive | the news of O Tsuyu's death | Shinzaburō | with grief; long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | die | O Tsuyu | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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