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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 51

Feeling at last certain that further research would be useless, he turned homeward by the shortest way, which happened to lead through the grounds of the temple Shin-Banzui-In.

Who acts: further research, Shitaya, shortest way · What happens: feel, be, turn, happen, lead · To what, where: last certain, homeward, grounds

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 (further research, Shitaya, shortest way), 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

caseamodoblmarkamodnsubjauxcopadvclpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodnsubjpunctflatpunctacl:relclpunctrootFeelingVERBatADPlastADJcertainADJthatSCONJfurtherADJresearchNOUNwouldAUXbeAUXuselessADJ,PUNCThePRONturnedVERBhomewardNOUNbyADPtheDETshortestADJwayNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONhappenedVERBtoPARTleadVERBthroughADPtheDETgroundsNOUNofADPtheDETtempleNOUNShinPROPN-PUNCTBanzuiPROPN-PUNCTInADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FeelingfeelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
2atatADP_4 certaincase
3lastlastADJDegree=Pos4 certainamod
4certaincertainADJDegree=Pos1 Feelingobl
5thatthatSCONJ_10 uselessmark
6furtherfurtherADJDegree=Pos7 researchamod
7researchresearchNOUNNumber=Sing10 uselessnsubj
8wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 uselessaux
9bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 uselesscop
10uselessuselessADJDegree=Pos1 Feelingadvcl
11,,PUNCT_13 turnedpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 turnednsubj
13turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 uselessconj
14homewardhomewardNOUNNumber=Sing13 turnedobj
15bybyADP_18 waycase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 waydet
17shortestshortADJDegree=Sup18 wayamod
18waywayNOUNNumber=Sing13 turnedobl
19,,PUNCT_21 happenedpunct
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel21 happenednsubj
21happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 wayacl:relcl
22totoPART_23 leadmark
23leadleadVERBVerbForm=Inf21 happenedxcomp
24throughthroughADP_26 groundscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 groundsdet
26groundsgroundsNOUNNumber=Ptan23 leadobl
27ofofADP_29 templecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 templedet
29templetempleNOUNNumber=Sing26 groundsnmod
30ShinShinPROPNNumber=Sing34 Innsubj
31--PUNCT_32 Banzuipunct
32BanzuiBanzuiPROPNNumber=Sing30 Shinflat
33--PUNCT_34 Inpunct
34IninADP_29 templeacl:relcl
35..PUNCT_1 Feelingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelgerundlast certainvn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at certain=Location
2iswouldfurther researchuseless propertytree rules
3turnpastShitayahomewardby the shortest wayvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme
4happenpastthe shortest waytree rules
5leadto-infinitivethe shortest way not said herethe grounds of the templevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through grounds=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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