In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 68

Shinzaburō was dead—hideously dead;—and his face was the face of a man who had died in the uttermost agony of fear;—and lying beside him in the bed were the bones of a woman!

Who acts: Shinzaburō, face, man, lying · What happens: be, die, lie · To what, where: face, bed, bones

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 (Shinzaburō, face, man, lying), 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	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
5	hideously	hideously	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dead	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 face	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 face	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 face	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 died	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 died	aux
20	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 man	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 agony	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 agony	det
23	uttermost	uttermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 agony	amod
24	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 fear	case
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 agony	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 bones	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bones	cc
30	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 bones	csubj
31	beside	beside	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lying	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 bed	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bed	det
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lying	obl
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 bones	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bones	det
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dead	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 woman	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 woman	det
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bones	nmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Shinzaburō			dead property	tree rules
2	be		Shinzaburō not said here			hideously property	tree rules
3	is a	past	Tomozō's face	the face		of a man	tree rules
4	die	past · perfect	a man			in the uttermost agony of fear	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in agony=Attribute
5	lie	gerund			the bed	beside Tomozō	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
6	is a	past	lying	the bones		of a woman	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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 68