In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 72
And I beg of you always to cherish our dear lord: never allow another woman to rob you of his affection….
Who acts: I, you · What happens: beg, cherish, not allow, rob · To what, where: dear lord, woman, you · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beg | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 cherish | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 cherish | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 cherish | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cherish | mark |
| 8 | cherish | cherish | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beg | ccomp |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lord | amod |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cherish | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 allow | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 allow | advmod |
| 14 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 beg | conj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 allow | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rob | mark |
| 18 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allow | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 rob | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 affection | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 affection | nmod:poss |
| 22 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rob | obl |
| 23 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cherish not said to happen | to-infinitive | you | our dear lord | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not allow | infinitive | I not said here | another woman | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | rob not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | of Yukiko's affection | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme of affection=Source |
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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