In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 60
Yes, it is true, as you say, that I have been sick for three long years, and that I have been treated with all possible care and affection….
Who acts: title, you, I · What happens: be, say, treat · To what, where: I · 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 (title, you, 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sick | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sick | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sick | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sick | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 sick | cop |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sick | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 treated | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 treated | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 treated | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 treated | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 treated | aux:pass |
| 26 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 true | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 care | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 care | det |
| 29 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 care | amod |
| 30 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 treated | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 affection | cc |
| 32 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 care | conj |
| 33 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | title | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I | year | sick property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | treat | present · perfect · passive | I | with all possible care and affection | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with care=Theme |
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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