In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 11
Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:—“What you have asked to see will be shown to you.
Who acts: Bodhisattva, young companion · What happens: say, ask, see, show · To what, where: young companion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisattva, young companion), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bodhisattva | det |
| 3 | Bodhisattva | Bodhisattva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 companion | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 companion | amod |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 shown | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 shown | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 shown | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 shown | nsubj:outer |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | aux |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 What | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 shown | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 shown | aux:pass |
| 20 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 shown | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Bodhisattva | Bodhisattva's young companion | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | Bodhisattva's young companion = companion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Bodhisattva's young companion = companion not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | show in a quote | future · passive | Bodhisattva's young companion = companion | What nsubj:outer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to you=Recipient |
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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