In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 107

Shinzaburō made fast the doors, bound the precious amulet about his waist, entered his mosquito-net, and by the glow of a night-lantern began to recite the _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_.

Who acts: Shinzaburō, night lantern · What happens: make, enter, begin, recite, glow · To what, where: doors, mosquito net, Ubō

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shinzaburō, night lantern), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 made	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 amulet	punct
7	bound	bound	ADP	_	10 amulet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 amulet	det
9	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amulet	amod
10	amulet	amulet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 waist	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 waist	nmod:poss
13	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amulet	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entered	punct
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 net	nmod:poss
17	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 net	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 mosquito	punct
19	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 glow	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glow	det
24	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 lantern	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lantern	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lantern	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
29	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glow	nmod
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 recite	mark
32	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Ubō	det
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Ubō	punct
35	Ubō	Ubō	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 recite	obj
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Darani	punct
37	Darani	Darani	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Ubō	conj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Kyō	punct
39	Kyō	Kyō	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Ubō	conj
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Shinzaburō	the doors	bound the precious amulet about _'s waist; fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Product
2	enter	past	Shinzaburō not said here	_'s mosquito net		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme net=Destination
3	begin	past			by the glow of a night lantern	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	recite	to-infinitive		the Ubō and Darani and Kyō		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ubō=Theme
5	glow		a night lantern			nom glow «state intransitive»: of=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 107