In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 79

Ah, I had almost forgotten!—I want you to do something for me, Yukiko.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: forget, want, do · To what, where: you, something

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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 forgotten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forgotten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 forgotten	advmod
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 do	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Yukiko	punct
18	Yukiko	Yukiko	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	I		almost property	tree rules
2	want	present	I	you		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	something	for me; Yukiko obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 79