In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 93
“Why, this way!”—responded the dying woman, lifting herself with an almost superhuman effort by clinging to Yukiko’s shoulders.
Who acts: dying woman · What happens: respond, die, lift, cling · To what, where: woman
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 (dying woman), 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 | _ | 9 responded | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 responded | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Why | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
| 9 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifting | punct |
| 14 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 responded | advcl |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 lifting | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 effort | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 effort | det |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 superhuman | advmod |
| 19 | superhuman | superhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 effort | amod |
| 20 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifting | obl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 clinging | mark |
| 22 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lifting | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 shoulders | case |
| 24 | Yukiko | Yukiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Yukiko | case |
| 26 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 clinging | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | the dying woman | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | lift | gerund | the dying woman not said here | woman | with a superhuman effort | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 4 | cling | gerund | the dying woman not said here | to Yukiko's shoulders | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Co-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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