In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 15
Night after night O-Yoné entered into his dwelling, and roused him from his sleep, and asked him to remove the _o-fuda_ placed over one very small window at the back of his master’s house.
Who acts: O, Tomozō · What happens: enter, rouse, ask, remove, place, sleep · To what, where: dwelling, Tomozō, sleep, o fuda, one small window
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 (O, Tomozō), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Night | nmod |
| 4 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yoné | punct |
| 6 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 O | conj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 dwelling | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roused | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roused | cc |
| 13 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 roused | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sleep | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roused | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 remove | mark |
| 23 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fuda | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 fuda | punct |
| 26 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fuda | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 o | punct |
| 28 | fuda | fuda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remove | obj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 placed | punct |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 remove | advcl |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 window | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 window | nummod |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 small | advmod |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 window | amod |
| 35 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 back | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 back | det |
| 38 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 window | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 master | nmod:poss |
| 41 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 house | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 master | case |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 back | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | O and Yoné | Yoné's dwelling | night | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dwelling=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rouse | past | O and Yoné not said here | Tomozō | Tomozō's sleep | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | O and Yoné not said here | Tomozō | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remove not said to happen | to-infinitive | O and Yoné not said here | the o fuda | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuda=Theme | ||||
| 5 | place | participle | O and Yoné not said here | one small window at the back of Tomozō's master's house | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over window=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sleep | Tomozō | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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