In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 86
While thus asking, her voice had gradually become clear and strong,—as if the intensity of the wish had given her new force: then she suddenly burst into tears.
Who acts: voice · What happens: ask, become, give, burst · To what, where: intensity, tears
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 (voice), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 asking | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 asking | advmod |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 8 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 9 become | advmod |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 asking | parataxis |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 become | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strong | cc |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clear | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asking | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 given | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 given | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 intensity | det |
| 18 | intensity | intensity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wish | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wish | det |
| 21 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 intensity | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 asking | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 force | nmod:poss |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 force | amod |
| 26 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 burst | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 burst | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 burst | nsubj |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 31 burst | advmod |
| 31 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 tears | case |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 burst | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | thus property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | yaë's voice | clear, gradually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the intensity of the wish | yaë's new force obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient force=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | voice | tears | then | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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