In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 78
After my death, you will certainly be promoted to a higher place; and I now assure you again that I wish you to become the wife of our lord—yes, I wish this, Yukiko, even more than I wish to become a Buddha!…
Who acts: I, my · What happens: promote, assure, wish, become, die · To what, where: you, wife, this, Buddha
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, my), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 death | nmod:poss |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promoted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 promoted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 promoted | aux |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 promoted | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promoted | aux:pass |
| 9 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promoted | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 assure | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 assure | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 assure | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 assure | advmod |
| 18 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 promoted | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 assure | iobj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 assure | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 wish | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 assure | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wish | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 become | mark |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wish | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wife | det |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 become | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lord | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lord | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | nmod |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 wish | punct |
| 33 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 36 wish | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 yes | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 wish | nsubj |
| 36 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 promoted | parataxis |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 wish | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Yukiko | punct |
| 39 | Yukiko | Yukiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wish | vocative |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 more | punct |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 more | advmod |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 wish | conj |
| 43 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 45 wish | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 wish | nsubj |
| 45 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 more | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 become | mark |
| 47 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 wish | xcomp |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 Buddha | det |
| 49 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 become | obj |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 promoted | punct |
| 51 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | future · passive | you | after my death | to a higher place; certainly property | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | assure | present | I | you | now; again | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wish | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the wife of our lord | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wish | present | I | this | Yukiko vocative | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | |||
| 6 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a Buddha | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient buddha=Result | ||||
| 8 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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