In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 49

He went through every street and side-street, read all the names inscribed at the various entrances, and made inquiries whenever an opportunity presented itself.

Who acts: Shitaya, opportunity · What happens: go, read, inscribe, make, present · To what, where: street, names, various entrances, inquiries, opportunity

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 (Shitaya, opportunity), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 street	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 street	det
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 street	cc
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 street	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 side	punct
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 street	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 names	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 names	det
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 read	obj
15	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 names	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 entrances	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 entrances	det
18	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 entrances	amod
19	entrances	entrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 inscribed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
23	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
24	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 presented	advmod
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 opportunity	det
26	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 presented	nsubj
27	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	advcl
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 presented	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Shitaya		every street and side street		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	read	infinitive	Shitaya not said here	all names			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	inscribe	participle		all names not said here	the various entrances		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at entrance=Destination
4	make	past	Shitaya not said here	inquiries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
5	present	past	a opportunity	opportunity		whenever property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

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 49

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 49