In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 121

Then, strange to say, Shinzaburō felt unable to remain under his mosquito-net: something stronger even than his fear impelled him to look; and, instead of continuing to recite the _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_, he foolishly approached the shutters, and through a chink peered out into the night.

Who acts: Shinzaburō, fear, sweat · What happens: say, feel, remain, impel, look, continue · To what, where: mosquito net, sweat, Ubō, shutters · 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 (Shinzaburō, fear, sweat), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 strange	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 strange	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
7	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strange	parataxis
9	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 remain	mark
11	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unable	xcomp
12	under	under	ADP	_	16 net	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 net	nmod:poss
14	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 net	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 mosquito	punct
16	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remain	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 stronger	punct
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 stronger	obl:unmarked
19	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 felt	conj
20	even	even	ADV	_	24 impelled	advmod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 impelled	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fear	nmod:poss
23	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 impelled	nsubj
24	impelled	impel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stronger	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impelled	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 impelled	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 approached	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 approached	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 continuing	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 approached	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 recite	mark
35	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 continuing	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Ubō	det
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Ubō	punct
38	Ubō	Ubō	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 recite	obj
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Darani	punct
40	Darani	Darani	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ubō	conj
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Kyō	punct
42	Kyō	Kyō	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ubō	conj
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Ubō	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 continuing	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 approached	nsubj
46	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	_	47 approached	advmod
47	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strange	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 shutters	det
49	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 approached	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 peered	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 peered	cc
52	through	through	ADP	_	54 chink	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 chink	det
54	chink	chink	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 peered	obl
55	peered	peer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 approached	conj
56	out	out	ADP	_	55 peered	compound:prt
57	into	into	ADP	_	59 night	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 night	det
59	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 peered	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	Shinzaburō				unable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	remain	to-infinitive	Shinzaburō not said here		sweat's mosquito net			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under net=Location
4	impel	past	sweat's fear	sweat				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	look	to-infinitive	sweat's fear not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	continue	gerund	fear not said here					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	recite	to-infinitive	fear not said here	the Ubō and Darani and Kyō				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ubō=Theme
8	approach	past	fear	the shutters			foolishly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Theme
9	peer out	participle	fear not said here			night	through a chink	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through chink=Theme
11	fear		sweat					nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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 121

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 121