In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 91

As a nurse turns her back to a child, that the child may cling to it, Yukiko offered her shoulders to the wife, and said:—

Who acts: nurse, child, Yukiko · What happens: turn, cling, offer, say · To what, where: back, shoulders, wife · 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 (nurse, child, Yukiko), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 turns	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cling	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 cling	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cling	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cling	aux
15	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turns	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 offered	punct
19	Yukiko	Yukiko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 offered	nsubj
20	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cling	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 offered	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 wife	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wife	det
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 offered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a nurse	nurse's back		to a child result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent back=Theme to child=Result
2	cling	may	the child		back		vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme
3	offer	past	Yukiko	nurse's shoulders	the wife		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme to wife=Goal
4	say speech: assert	past					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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 91