In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 22
Almost in the same moment the talk-ing ceased; and when O-Miné looked about her, she saw, by the light of the night-lamp, only her husband,—shuddering and white with fear.
Who acts: O, Miné · What happens: cease, look, see, shudder, light · To what, where: talk ing, light, night lamp
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, Miné), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 moment | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ing | det |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ing | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
| 9 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | nmod |
| 10 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ing | acl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 looked | advmod |
| 14 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Miné | punct |
| 16 | Miné | Miné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 O | conj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 light | punct |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lamp | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lamp | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lamp | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 night | punct |
| 31 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 husband | punct |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 husband | advmod |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 husband | nmod:poss |
| 35 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shuddering | punct |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 shuddering | punct |
| 38 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 white | cc |
| 40 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 shuddering | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 fear | case |
| 42 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 white | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | the talk ing not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | past | O and Miné | about Miné | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Miné | the light of the night lamp and Miné's husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shudder | gerund | Miné not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | light | the night lamp | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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