In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 61

The sun was high before he ventured again to approach his master’s dwelling, and to knock upon the sliding-doors.

Who acts: sun, Tomozō · What happens: be, venture, approach, knock · To what, where: dwelling, sliding doors

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 (sun, Tomozō), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 ventured	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ventured	nsubj
7	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	advcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 ventured	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 approach	mark
10	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ventured	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwelling	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 master	case
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approach	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knock	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knock	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 knock	mark
18	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 approach	advcl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 doors	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 doors	det
21	sliding	sliding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doors	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sliding	punct
23	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 knock	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun				high property	tree rules
2	venture	past	Tomozō			again		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	approach	to-infinitive	Tomozō not said here	Tomozō's master's dwelling				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme
4	knock	to-infinitive	Tomozō not said here		the sliding doors			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon door=Location

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 61