In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 84
Yes, upon your back, Yukiko;—take me upon your back….”
What happens: take · To what, where: me
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: 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 back | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 back | punct |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yukiko | punct |
| 7 | Yukiko | Yukiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 back | appos |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 back | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | me | upon your back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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