In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 68

Come a little closer,—so that you can hear me well: I am not able to speak loud….

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, hear, not be, speak · To what, where: me · 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 (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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 closer	obl:unmarked
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 closer	punct
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 hear	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hear	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 able	advmod
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Come	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 speak	xcomp
22	….	..	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	can	you	me	well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	not is	present	I		able property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here		loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 68

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 68