In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 18

“But most women,” I observed, “would like to be reborn as men; and the accomplishment of that wish would scarcely be in the nature of a penalty.”

Who acts: most women, accomplishment · What happens: observe, like, be, accomplish · To what, where: nature, wish · 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 (most women, accomplishment), 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	_	8 observed	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 women	amod
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 observed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 women	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 women	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 observed	nsubj
8	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 observed	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	15 reborn	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 reborn	cop
15	reborn	reborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 like	xcomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 men	case
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reborn	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 nature	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nature	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 accomplishment	det
21	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nature	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wish	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 wish	det
24	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accomplishment	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 nature	aux
26	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	30 nature	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 nature	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 nature	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nature	det
30	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 observed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 penalty	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 penalty	det
33	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nature	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 observed	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	past	most women			I nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	most women not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	most women not said here			as men; reborn property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	would	the accomplishment of that wish		the nature	of a penalty; scarcely property	tree rules
5	accomplish in a quote			that wish			nom accomplishment «act transitive»: of=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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 18