In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 6
Thus she continued to plead, veiling her face with her long sleeves,—and very beautiful she looked, and very touching; but the fear of death was strong upon her lover.
Who acts: girl, fear · What happens: continue, plead, veil, look, touch, be · To what, where: face, death
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 (girl, fear), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 plead | mark |
| 5 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 veiling | punct |
| 7 | veiling | veil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 plead | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 veiling | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sleeves | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleeves | amod |
| 13 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 veiling | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 continued | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beautiful | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touching | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 touching | cc |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 touching | advmod |
| 24 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 looked | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 strong | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 strong | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fear | det |
| 28 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strong | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fear | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 strong | cop |
| 32 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 continued | conj |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 lover | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lover | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strong | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | girl | thus property | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | veil | gerund | girl not said here | girl's face | with girl's long sleeves | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with sleeve=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | past | girl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | touch | gerund | girl not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the fear of death | upon girl's lover; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fear | death | nom fear «feeling 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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