In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 76

Ryōseki, without waiting to hear the purpose of the old man’s visit, at once invited him into a private apartment.

Who acts: Ryōseki, visit, old man · What happens: wait, hear, invite, purpose, visit · To what, where: purpose, Ryōseki, private apartment

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 (Ryōseki, visit, old man), 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	Ryōseki	Ryōseki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 waiting	mark
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waiting	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purpose	det
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 visit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visit	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purpose	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 invited	punct
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 invited	mark
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 invited	advmod
18	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 invited	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 apartment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 apartment	det
22	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 apartment	amod
23	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 invited	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	Ryōseki					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	Ryōseki not said here	the purpose of the old man's visit				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus
3	invite	past	Ryōseki not said here		Ryōseki	a private apartment	once property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	purpose		the old man's visit					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
5	visit		the old man					nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 76