In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 23

The stranger was gone; the doors were fast: it seemed impossible that anybody could have entered.

Who acts: stranger, doors, it, anybody · What happens: be, seem, enter

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 (stranger, doors, it, anybody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doors	det
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fast	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fast	cop
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 entered	mark
15	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 entered	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 entered	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 entered	aux
18	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seemed	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stranger	gone property	tree rules
2	is	past	the doors	fast property	tree rules
3	seem	past	it	impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	enter	could · perfect	anybody		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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 5, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 23