In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 27
They came again on the following night at the Hour of the Ox; and O-Miné hid herself on hearing the sound of their coming,—_karan-koron, karan-koron!
Who acts: conditions, O · What happens: come, follow, hide, hear · To what, where: Miné, sound
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 (conditions, O), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Hour | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hour | det |
| 10 | Hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ox | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ox | det |
| 13 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Hour | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hid | cc |
| 16 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Miné | punct |
| 18 | Miné | Miné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 O | conj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 hearing | mark |
| 22 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hid | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sound | det |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hearing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 coming | mark |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 coming | nsubj |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 sound | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 koron | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 koron | punct |
| 31 | karan | karan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 koron | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 karan | punct |
| 33 | koron | koron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 koron | punct |
| 35 | karan | karan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 koron | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 koron | punct |
| 37 | koron | koron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 koron | conj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | conditions = condition | again; night | karan koron and karan koron parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hide | past | O and Miné | Miné | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | O and Miné not said here | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | conditions = condition | the sound not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=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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