In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 77
“Nay, nay!” returned the wife, huskily,—“this is not a time for words of ceremony: let us speak only the truth to each other.
Who acts: this, us · What happens: return, not be, let, speak, word · To what, where: wife, time, us, truth, ceremony · 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 (this, us), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 returned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 2 Nay | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 huskily | punct |
| 11 | huskily | huskily | ADV | _ | 7 returned | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 time | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 time | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ceremony | case |
| 23 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 words | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | conj |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 truth | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 speak | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 each | case |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 truth | nmod |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 each | fixed |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the wife | huskily property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | this | a time | for words of ceremony | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | this not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the truth | to each | tree rules | |||
| 5 | word in a quote | ceremony | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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