In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 54

We have done all that we could to get you well,—watching beside you night and day, praying for you, and often fasting for your sake, But in spite of our loving care, and in spite of the skill of our best physicians, it would now seen that the end of your life is not far off.

Who acts: We, spite, our · What happens: do, get, watch, pray, fast, see · To what, where: that, skill, spite, loving care

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 (We, spite, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 get	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 get	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 get	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 watching	punct
14	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 done	parataxis
15	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 night	nsubj
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watching	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 day	cc
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 praying	punct
21	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 watching	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 praying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fasting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fasting	cc
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 fasting	advmod
27	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 watching	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 sake	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sake	nmod:poss
30	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fasting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 off	punct
32	But	but	CCONJ	_	64 off	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spite	case
34	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 off	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 care	case
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 care	nmod:poss
37	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 care	amod
38	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spite	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 seen	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 seen	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 spite	case
42	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 seen	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 skill	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 skill	det
45	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spite	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 physicians	case
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 physicians	nmod:poss
48	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 physicians	amod
49	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 skill	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spite	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 seen	nsubj:pass
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 seen	aux
53	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 seen	advmod
54	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 spite	acl
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 end	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 end	det
57	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 seen	xcomp
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 life	case
59	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 life	nmod:poss
60	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 end	nmod
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 off	cop
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 far	advmod
63	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	64 off	advmod
64	off	off	ADV	_	3 done	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	We					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	could	we	that			you obj; well property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary you=Theme
3	watch	gerund				night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	pray	gerund					for you	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme
5	fast	gerund					for your sake; often property	tree rules
6	see	would · passive	spite of our loving care not said here	skill	spite of the skill of our best physicians	the end of your life; now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
7	is	present			spite of our loving care		far, off property	tree rules
8	spite			our loving care				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
9	care		our					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent
10	spite			the skill of our best physicians				nom spite «feeling 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 54

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In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 54