In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 21

Were she to find herself alone with my corpse in some desolate place, she would first mourn wildly for her friend; but, this duty performed, she would proceed to ease her sorrow in the simplest way possible,—by eating him,—by cracking his bones between those long wolf’s-teeth of hers.

Who acts: incongruity, duty · What happens: find, desolate, mourn, perform, proceed, ease · To what, where: incongruity, place, sorrow, simplest way, duty, bones

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incongruity, duty), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 find	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 corpse	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 corpse	nmod:poss
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 some	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 corpse	nmod
12	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 some	nmod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desolate	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mourn	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mourn	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 mourn	aux
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 mourn	advmod
18	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 desolate	conj
19	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	18 mourn	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 friend	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friend	nmod:poss
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mourn	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 performed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 performed	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 but	punct
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 duty	det
27	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 performed	nsubj
28	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 desolate	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 proceed	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 proceed	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 proceed	aux
32	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 performed	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ease	mark
34	ease	ease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 proceed	xcomp
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sorrow	nmod:poss
36	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ease	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
39	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 way	amod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ease	obl
41	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 way	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 eating	punct
43	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 eating	punct
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 eating	mark
45	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 proceed	advcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 eating	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 cracking	punct
48	—	-	PUNCT	_	50 cracking	punct
49	by	by	SCONJ	_	50 cracking	mark
50	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 eating	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bones	nmod:poss
52	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cracking	obj
53	between	between	ADP	_	56 wolf’s	case
54	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	56 wolf’s	det
55	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wolf’s	amod
56	wolf’s	wolf'	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cracking	obl
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 teeth	punct
58	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 wolf’s	appos
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 hers	case
60	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 teeth	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	incongruity	incongruity		with my corpse in some; alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	desolate	infinitive		place			tree rules
3	mourn	would	incongruity			for incongruity's friend; first, wildly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for friend=Attribute
4	perform	past	this duty				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	proceed	would	incongruity				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	ease	to-infinitive	incongruity not said here	incongruity's sorrow	the simplest way		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient
7	eat	gerund	incongruity not said here	duty			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	crack	gerund	incongruity not said here	duty's bones		between that long wolf’s	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme
9	sorrow		incongruity				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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 7, sentence 21

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 21