In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 88
“It is her last wish in this world,” he said.
Who acts: intensity, last wish · What happens: be, say · To what, where: last wish, world · 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 (intensity, last wish), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wish | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wish | amod |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | intensity | voice's last wish | this world | voice nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | voice's last wish | wish nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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