In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 127

Once she was on the very point of being officially executed when the wife of the smith ran to the rescue, and pleaded successfully with the policeman superintending the massacres.

Who acts: West, wife, point, policeman · What happens: be, execute, run, plead, superintend · To what, where: point, massacres

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, wife, point, policeman), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	7 point	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 point	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 point	advmod
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pleaded	nsubj:outer
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 executed	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 executed	aux:pass
10	officially	officially	ADV	_	11 executed	advmod
11	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 point	acl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 ran	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 smith	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 smith	det
17	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 executed	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 rescue	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rescue	det
21	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pleaded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pleaded	cc
24	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	24 pleaded	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 policeman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 policeman	det
28	policeman	policeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pleaded	obl
29	superintending	superintend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 policeman	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 massacres	det
31	massacres	massacre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 superintending	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	West		the point		tree rules
2	execute	gerund · passive		the point not said here		officially property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»
3	run	past	the wife of the smith			to the rescue result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rescue=Result
4	plead speech: request	past	the point			with the policeman; successfully property	tree rules
5	superintend	gerund	the policeman not said here	the massacres			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent massacre=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 6, sentence 127

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 127