In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 42
And hiding her face with her sleeve, she thus continued to plead.
Who acts: Tsuyu · What happens: hide, continue, plead · To what, where: face
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 (Tsuyu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 hiding | cc |
| 2 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 continued | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hiding | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sleeve | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hiding | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hiding | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 continued | advmod |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 plead | mark |
| 13 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continued | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | Tsuyu not said here | Tsuyu's face | with Tsuyu's sleeve | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Tsuyu | thus property | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | Tsuyu not said here | tree rules |
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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