In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 76
Almost at the same instant both women turned their faces toward Shinzaburō;—and to his utter astonishment, he recognized O-Tsuyu and her servant O-Yoné.
Who acts: same instant, Lantern, Shinzaburō · What happens: turn, recognize, astonish · To what, where: faces, Shinzaburō, O
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 (same instant, Lantern, 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 instant | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instant | amod |
| 5 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | obj |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 Shinzaburō | case |
| 12 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 recognized | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 recognized | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 astonishment | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 astonishment | amod |
| 19 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recognized | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 astonishment | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 recognized | nsubj |
| 22 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 23 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 recognized | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tsuyu | punct |
| 25 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 O | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 servant | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servant | nmod:poss |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 O | conj |
| 29 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 Yoné | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 O | punct |
| 31 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the same instant | women's faces | Shinzaburō | both women nsubj; almost property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme toward shinzaburō=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | recognize | past | Lantern | O and Tsuyu and Tsuyu's servant of Yoné | to Shinzaburō's utter astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer o=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | astonish | Shinzaburō | nom astonishment «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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