In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 70
I hope that you will be faithful in all things to our dear lord;—for I want you to take my place when I am gone….
Who acts: I, you · What happens: hope, be, want, take · To what, where: things, you, place · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 faithful | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 faithful | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 faithful | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 faithful | cop |
| 7 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 faithful | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lord | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lord | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lord | amod |
| 14 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 want | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hope | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 gone | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | cop |
| 28 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 take | advcl |
| 29 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | future | you | all things to our dear lord | faithful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | gone property | tree rules |
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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