In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 21

“Your theory is interesting,” I said;—“but I do not know how far it could be made to accord with accepted doctrine….

Who acts: theory, I · What happens: be, say, not know, make, accord, accept · To what, where: theory · 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 (theory, I), 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	_	5 interesting	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 theory	nmod:poss
3	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interesting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 interesting	cop
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 interesting	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 interesting	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 made	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj:pass
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 know	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 accord	mark
25	accord	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 doctrine	case
27	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 doctrine	amod
28	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 accord	obl
29	….	..	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your theory		interesting property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make in a quote	could · passive		theory	far property	tree rules
5	accord in a quote	to-infinitive	theory not said here		with accepted doctrine	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	accept in a quote	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 21