In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 124

“Ah! the tombs of O-Tsuyu and O-Yoné?” she responded, smiling;—“you will find them near the end of the first row at the back of the temple—next to the statue of Jizo.”

Who acts: tombs, you · What happens: respond, smile, find · To what, where: O, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tombs, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 responded	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 tombs	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tombs	det
5	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 responded	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Tsuyu	case
7	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tsuyu	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Tsuyu	punct
9	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tombs	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 O	cc
11	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tsuyu	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Yoné	punct
13	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tsuyu	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tombs	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tombs	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 responded	nsubj
17	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smiling	punct
19	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 responded	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 responded	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 responded	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	obj
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 end	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 row	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 row	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 row	amod
33	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 end	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 back	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 back	det
36	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 row	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 temple	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 temple	det
39	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 back	nmod
40	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 statue	punct
41	next	next	ADV	_	44 statue	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 statue	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 statue	det
44	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 end	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Jizo	case
46	Jizo	Jizo	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 statue	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past	the tombs of O Tsuyu and O and Yoné			tomb nsubj	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	smile	gerund	the tombs of O Tsuyu and O and Yoné not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find in a quote	future	you	O	near the end of the first row at the back of the temple and the statue of Jizo		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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 5, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 124