In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 110

After a careful examination he said that he could not understand the case, and that for the immediate relief of Yukiko there was nothing to be done except to cut the hands from the corpse.

Who acts: Yedo · What happens: say, not understand, do, cut · To what, where: case, hands, corpse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yedo), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 examination	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 examination	det
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 examination	amod
4	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 understand	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 understand	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 understand	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 understand	advmod
11	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 case	det
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understand	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 that	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 said	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 relief	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 relief	det
19	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 relief	amod
20	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 that	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Yukiko	case
22	Yukiko	Yukiko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 relief	nmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 relief	acl:relcl
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 was	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 done	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	aux:pass
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nothing	acl
29	except	except	ADP	_	31 cut	mark
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cut	mark
31	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hands	det
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cut	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 corpse	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 corpse	det
36	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Yedo			after a careful examination	that for the immediate relief of Yukiko nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not understand	could	Yedo	the case				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive · passive	Yedo not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»
4	cut	to-infinitive	Yedo not said here	the hands	the corpse			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset hand=Product from corpse=Material

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, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 110