In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 92
“Lady, I am ready: please tell me how I best can help you.”
Who acts: Lady, last wish · What happens: be, tell, help · To what, where: last wish, you · 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 (Lady, 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 ready | punct |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lady | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 tell | discourse |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 help | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Lady | I nsubj; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Lady not said here | voice's last wish = wish | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | can | voice's last wish = wish | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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