In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 111

At last he heard the boom of the great temple-bell of Dentsu-In announcing the eighth hour.

Who acts: sleep · What happens: hear, announce, boom · To what, where: boom, last, great temple bell

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 (sleep), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boom	det
6	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 bell	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bell	amod
10	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bell	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 temple	punct
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boom	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Dentsu	case
14	Dentsu	Dentsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bell	nmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Dentsu	punct
16	In	in	SCONJ	_	17 announcing	mark
17	announcing	announce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hour	det
19	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hour	amod
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 announcing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	sleep	the boom of the great temple bell of Dentsu	last		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boom=Stimulus
2	announce speech: other	gerund	sleep not said here			hour	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	boom			the great temple bell of Dentsu			nom boom «event transitive»: of=patient

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 111

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 111