In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 120

She had guarded the place, I was told, for a long succession of prior tenants—apparently with no better reason than that she had been born in the woodshed at the back of the house.

Who acts: West · What happens: guard, tell, bear · To what, where: place, I, West, woodshed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 guarded	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guarded	aux
3	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 guarded	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 succession	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 succession	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 succession	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 succession	amod
14	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tenants	case
16	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tenants	amod
17	tenants	tenant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 succession	nmod
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 reason	punct
19	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	23 reason	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 reason	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 reason	det
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 reason	amod
23	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarded	parataxis
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 reason	nmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 born	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 born	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 born	aux:pass
29	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 reason	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 woodshed	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woodshed	det
32	woodshed	woodshed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 born	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 back	det
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 born	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 back	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guard	past · perfect	West	the place		no better reason than that parataxis	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Beneficiary
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		I		a long succession of prior tenants conj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		West	the woodshed	at the back of the house	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 6, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 120