In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 12
And at last he was able to see;—but therewith an icy trembling seized him; and the hair of his head stood up.
Who acts: Tomozō, icy trembling, hair · What happens: be, see, seize, stand up · To what, where: last, Tomozō
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 (Tomozō, icy trembling, hair), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 able | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seized | cc |
| 12 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 16 seized | advmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trembling | det |
| 14 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trembling | amod |
| 15 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stood | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hair | det |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hair | nmod |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 stood | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tomozō | last | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Tomozō not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | a icy trembling | Tomozō | therewith property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand up | past | the hair of Tomozō's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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