In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 22

And thereafter, with spotless conscience, she would sit down and utter to the moon the funeral cry of her ancestors.

Who acts: incongruity, ancestors · What happens: sit down, utter, cry · To what, where: funeral cry, moon

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, ancestors), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 sit	cc
2	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	10 sit	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thereafter	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 conscience	case
5	spotless	spotless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 conscience	amod
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 conscience	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sit	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sit	aux
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 utter	cc
13	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sit	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 moon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 utter	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cry	det
18	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cry	compound
19	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 utter	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ancestors	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ancestors	nmod:poss
22	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cry	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	would	incongruity			with spotless conscience; thereafter property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	utter speech: other	infinitive	incongruity not said here	the funeral cry of incongruity's ancestors	the moon		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Topic to moon=Recipient
3	cry		incongruity's ancestors				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 22