In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 117
It ceased; and Shinzaburō suddenly heard the sound of _geta_ approaching from the old direction,—but this time more slowly: _karan-koron, karan-koron!
Who acts: o’clock, Shinzaburō · What happens: cease, hear, approach · To what, where: sound, old direction · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (o’clock, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ceased | nsubj |
| 2 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Shinzaburō | cc |
| 5 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ceased | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 geta | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 12 | geta | geta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 approaching | punct |
| 14 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 direction | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 direction | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 direction | amod |
| 18 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approaching | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 approaching | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 slowly | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 slowly | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 more | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 slowly | advmod |
| 25 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 ceased | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 koron | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 koron | punct |
| 28 | karan | karan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 koron | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 karan | punct |
| 30 | koron | koron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ceased | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 koron | punct |
| 32 | karan | karan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 koron | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 koron | punct |
| 34 | koron | koron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 koron | conj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | o’clock = o'clock | karan koron and karan koron parataxis; slowly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Shinzaburō | the sound of geta | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | approach | gerund | the old direction | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial_Location |
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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