In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 123
Never before—not even in what time she lived—had O-Tsuyu appeared so beautiful; and Shinzaburō felt his heart drawn towards her with a power almost resistless.
Who acts: Yoné, O, Shinzaburō, heart · What happens: live, have, appear, feel, draw · To what, where: heart
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 (Yoné, O, Shinzaburō, heart), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 time | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 13 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tsuyu | punct |
| 15 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 O | conj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 appeared | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 21 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | obj |
| 25 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drawn | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 power | det |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawn | obl |
| 31 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 32 resistless | advmod |
| 32 | resistless | resistless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Yoné | never; time | before property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Yoné not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | O and Tsuyu | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Shinzaburō | house's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw | participle | house's heart not said here | towards Yoné; with a power | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards she=Destination |
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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