In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 81

I have been told that it is now in full bloom;—and I wanted so much to see it in flower!

Who acts: zakura, I · What happens: tell, be, want, see · To what, where: I, full bloom, much, zakura, flower · 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 (zakura, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 bloom	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bloom	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bloom	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 bloom	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bloom	case
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bloom	amod
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wanted	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 much	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 flower	case
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present	zakura		full bloom	now	tree rules
3	want	past	I	much			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive		zakura	flower		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 81

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 81