In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 69

Clad only in a light summer-robe, he sat there thinking, dreaming, sorrowing;—sometimes fanning himself; sometimes making a little smoke to drive the mosquitoes away.

Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: clad, sit, think, dream, sorrow, fan · To what, where: light summer robe, Shinzaburō, little smoke, mosquitoes

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 (Shinzaburō), 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	Clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	8 robe	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 robe	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robe	det
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robe	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robe	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clad	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Clad	parataxis
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sat	advmod
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sat	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dreaming	punct
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thinking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sorrowing	punct
17	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thinking	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fanning	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 fanning	punct
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 fanning	advmod
21	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Clad	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 fanning	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 making	punct
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 making	advmod
25	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fanning	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 smoke	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 smoke	amod
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 making	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 drive	mark
30	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 making	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mosquitoes	det
32	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 drive	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	30 drive	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Clad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clad	past			a light summer robe		tree rules
2	sit	past	Shinzaburō		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	Shinzaburō not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dream	gerund	Shinzaburō not said here				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	sorrow	gerund	Shinzaburō not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fan	gerund		Shinzaburō		sometimes property	tree rules
7	make	gerund		a little smoke		sometimes property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=Product
8	drive away	to-infinitive		the mosquitoes		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosquito=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/69/

🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 69