In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 16
Simultaneously another woman’s figure, and a weirder, rose up from within the chamber, and swiftly made toward the watcher, as if discerning his presence.
Who acts: figure, woman · What happens: rise up, make, discern, figure · To what, where: chamber, presence
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 (figure, woman), 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 | Simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 5 figure | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 figure | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 woman | case |
| 5 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weirder | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weirder | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weirder | det |
| 9 | weirder | weird | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 rose | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 rose | compound:prt |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 chamber | case |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chamber | det |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 19 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rose | conj |
| 21 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 watcher | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 watcher | det |
| 23 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 discerning | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 discerning | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 discerning | mark |
| 27 | discerning | discern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 made | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 presence | nmod:poss |
| 29 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 discerning | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | another woman's figure | the chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | another woman's figure not said here | toward the watcher; swiftly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | discern | gerund | another woman's figure not said here | figure's presence | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer presence=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | figure | another woman | nom figure «communication 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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