In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 19

Hakuōdō Yusai, the _ninsomi_, was a very old man; but in his time he had travelled much, and he had heard and seen so many things that he could not be easily surprised.

Who acts: Hakuōdō, seen many things · What happens: be, travell, hear, see, not be · To what, where: old man, seen many things

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 (Hakuōdō, seen many things), 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	Hakuōdō	Hakuōdō	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 man	nsubj
2	Yusai	Yusai	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hakuōdō	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ninsomi	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ninsomi	det
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 ninsomi	punct
6	ninsomi	ninsomi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Hakuōdō	dep
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 ninsomi	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hakuōdō	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 old	advmod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 travelled	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 travelled	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 time	nmod:poss
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 travelled	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 travelled	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 travelled	aux
21	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 man	acl:relcl
22	much	much	ADV	_	21 travelled	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 travelled	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 things	amod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heard	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 surprised	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 surprised	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 surprised	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 surprised	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 surprised	cop
38	easily	easily	ADV	_	39 surprised	advmod
39	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hakuōdō	a old man			tree rules
2	travell	past · perfect	Hakuōdō	a old man not said here	time		tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	Hakuōdō	seen many things			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	see	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is	could	seen many things			Hakuōdō nsubj; easily, surprised property	tree rules

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 19