In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 76
You well know that I am of poor and mean condition:—how could I ever dare to aspire to become the wife of our lord!”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, be, dare, aspire, become · To what, where: wife · 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 poor | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 poor | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 poor | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poor | case |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 condition | cc |
| 10 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poor | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 dare | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 dare | advmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dare | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 dare | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 dare | advmod |
| 18 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 aspire | mark |
| 20 | aspire | aspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dare | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 become | mark |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 aspire | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wife | det |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lord | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lord | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | mean condition conj; poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | could | I | ever | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | aspire | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | I not said here | the wife of our lord | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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