In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 10
One of the boys made answer:—“We want to kill it to get the feathers.”
Who acts: One, We · What happens: make, want, kill, get · To what, where: answer, feathers
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, We), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 made | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 boys | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kill | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feathers | det |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | One | answer | of the boys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | |||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | answer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | the feathers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |
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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