In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 64
Then, aided by O-Miné, he succeeded in effecting an entrance and making his way alone to the sleeping-room, where he called again in vain.
Who acts: Tomozō · What happens: aid, succeed, effect, make, call · To what, where: entrance, way, vain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 aided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aided | punct |
| 3 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 O | case |
| 5 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aided | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Miné | punct |
| 7 | Miné | Miné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 O | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 succeeded | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 succeeded | nsubj |
| 10 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aided | conj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 effecting | mark |
| 12 | effecting | effect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 succeeded | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 entrance | det |
| 14 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 effecting | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 making | cc |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 effecting | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 making | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 22 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 room | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleeping | punct |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 called | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 called | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 called | nsubj |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 room | acl:relcl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 called | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 vain | case |
| 31 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 called | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | participle | then | by O and Miné | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past | Tomozō | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | effect | gerund | Tomozō not said here | a entrance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Tomozō not said here | Tomozō's way | to the sleeping room; alone property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 5 | call | past | Tomozō | vain | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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