In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 39

“Look now below you and above you and about you, and tell me what you see.”

Who acts: you · What happens: look, tell, see · To what, where: me · 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 (you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	below	below	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 you	cc
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 you	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 you	cc
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 you	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 see	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here		now	below you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent below you=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	present	you			what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 39