In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 74
Then Shinzaburö, feeling curious, stood on tiptoe, so as to look over the hedge; and he saw two women passing.
Who acts: Shinzaburö, two women · What happens: feel, stand, look, see, pass · To what, where: tiptoe, two women
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 (Shinzaburö, two women), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Shinzaburö | Shinzaburö | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Shinzaburö | acl |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feeling | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shinzaburö | punct |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tiptoe | case |
| 9 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stood | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 hedge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hedge | det |
| 17 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 women | nummod |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 women | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Shinzaburö not said here | curious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Shinzaburö | tiptoe | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Shinzaburö not said here | over the hedge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over hedge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Shinzaburö | two women | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pass | gerund | two women not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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