In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 25

Then the passion of O-Miné yielded to wonder and alarm; but she was a subtle woman, and she devised immediately a plan to save her husband by the sacrifice of her master.

Who acts: passion · What happens: yield, wonder, be, devise, save, sacrifice · To what, where: subtle woman, plan, husband, master

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 (passion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 yielded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passion	det
3	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yielded	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Miné	case
5	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Miné	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Miné	punct
7	Miné	Miné	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 passion	nmod
8	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wonder	mark
10	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 yielded	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 alarm	cc
12	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wonder	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 woman	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 woman	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 woman	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woman	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	subtle	subtle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yielded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 devised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 devised	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 devised	nsubj
23	devised	devise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 yielded	conj
24	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 devised	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 plan	det
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 devised	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 save	mark
28	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 devised	advcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 save	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 sacrifice	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sacrifice	det
33	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 save	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 master	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 master	nmod:poss
36	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sacrifice	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 yielded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	yield	past	the passion of O Miné		then		tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	the passion of O Miné not said here			alarm conj	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	passion	a subtle woman			tree rules
4	devise	past	passion	a plan		immediately property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
5	save	to-infinitive	passion not said here	passion's husband		by the sacrifice of passion's master	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
6	sacrifice			passion's master			nom sacrifice «act 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 25

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 25