In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 124

Children ride on her back, and tease her at will; but although she has been known to make strange men feel uncomfortable, she never growls at a child.

Who acts: Children, strange men, West · What happens: ride, tease, know, make, feel, not growl · To what, where: back, West

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 (Children, strange men, 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ride	nsubj
2	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tease	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tease	cc
8	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ride	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tease	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 will	case
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tease	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 growls	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 growls	cc
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	18 known	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 known	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 known	aux:pass
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 growls	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 known	xcomp
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feel	nsubj
23	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	ccomp
24	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feel	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 known	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 growls	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 growls	advmod
28	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ride	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 child	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 growls	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Children		West's back		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	tease	infinitive	Children not said here	West			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	know	present · perfect · passive		West			tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive					tree rules
5	feel	present	strange men			uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	not growl	present	West			at a child	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at child=Stimulus

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 124

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 124