In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 74

He suspected Tomozō of the theft; but the whole occurrence was so very extraordinary that he thought it prudent to consult with the priest Ryōseki before taking further action.

Who acts: image, whole occurrence · What happens: suspect, be, think, consult, take · To what, where: Tomozō, occurrence, further action

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 (image, whole occurrence), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 suspected	nsubj
2	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 suspected	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 theft	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 theft	det
6	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suspected	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 extraordinary	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 extraordinary	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 occurrence	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 occurrence	amod
11	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 extraordinary	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extraordinary	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 extraordinary	advmod
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 extraordinary	advmod
15	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 suspected	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extraordinary	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	obj
20	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 consult	mark
22	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 prudent	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 priest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 priest	det
25	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 consult	obl
26	Ryōseki	Ryōseki	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 priest	appos
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 taking	mark
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 consult	advcl
29	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 action	amod
30	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suspect	past	image	Tomozō	of the theft	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tomozō=Theme of theft=Attribute
2	is	past	the whole occurrence		extraordinary property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	image	occurrence	prudent property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	consult	to-infinitive	image not said here		with the priest	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with priest=Co-Agent
5	take	gerund	image not said here	further action		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 74