In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 59

Veiling their faces with their sleeves they rose and passed, like a streaming of vapor, into the little window from over which the holy text had been torn away.

Who acts: visitants · What happens: veil, rise, pass, tear away · To what, where: faces, little window, holy text

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 (visitants), 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	Veiling	veil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rose	advcl
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 faces	nmod:poss
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Veiling	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sleeves	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleeves	nmod:poss
6	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rose	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 streaming	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 streaming	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 streaming	det
14	streaming	streaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 vapor	case
16	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 streaming	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 window	punct
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 window	amod
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 over	case
23	over	over	ADV	_	30 torn	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 torn	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 text	det
26	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 text	amod
27	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 torn	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 torn	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 torn	aux:pass
30	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 window	acl:relcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 torn	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	veil	gerund	visitants = visitant not said here	visitants's faces			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination
2	rise	past	visitants = visitant			with visitants's sleeves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	visitants = visitant not said here		the little window	like a streaming of vapor	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into window=Initial_Location
4	tear away	past · perfect · passive		the holy text		the little window obj; away property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient which=Result

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 59

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 59