In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 62
Perhaps to think of worldly matters at such a time is not right;—but I have one last request to make,—only one….
Who acts: worldly, I · What happens: think, matter, not be, have, make · To what, where: one last request · 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 (worldly, 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 worldly | case |
| 5 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matters | nsubj |
| 6 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 right | advmod |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matters | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 request | nummod |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 request | amod |
| 21 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 request | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 one | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 think | ccomp |
| 28 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | one ccomp; perhaps property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | worldly | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | worldly not said here | time | right property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | I | one last request | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | one last request not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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