In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 111

He declared that it would be dangerous to attempt to detach them from the breasts.

Who acts: Yedo, it · What happens: declare, be, attempt, detach · To what, where: hands · 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, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dangerous	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dangerous	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dangerous	cop
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 declared	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attempt	mark
9	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dangerous	csubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 detach	mark
11	detach	detach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempt	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 detach	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 breasts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 breasts	det
15	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 detach	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	Yedo			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	it		dangerous property	tree rules
3	attempt	to-infinitive				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	detach not said to happen	to-infinitive		hands = hand	from the breasts	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient from breast=Co-Patient

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 111

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 111