In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 114

Each Japanese hour was equal to two European hours, so that there were only six hours instead of our twelve; and these six hours were counted backwards in the order,—9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4.

Who acts: Japanese hour, six hours · What happens: be, count · To what, where: six hours, order

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 (Japanese hour, six hours), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hour	det
2	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hour	amod
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 equal	cop
5	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 hours	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hours	nummod
8	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hours	amod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 equal	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 were	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 equal	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 six	advmod
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hours	nummod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 twelve	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 twelve	nmod:poss
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hours	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 counted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 counted	cc
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 hours	det
25	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hours	nummod
26	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 counted	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 counted	aux:pass
28	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 equal	conj
29	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	28 counted	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 order	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 order	det
32	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 counted	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 9	punct
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 9	punct
35	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 counted	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 8	punct
37	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 9	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 7	punct
39	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 8	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 6	punct
41	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 9	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 5	punct
43	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 6	nmod:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 4	punct
45	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 6	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 equal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	each Japanese hour			hour	equal property	tree rules
2	be	past	six hours instead our twelve		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	count	past · passive		this six hours	the order		9 obl; backwards property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 114