In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 120

“Only pleasantly cool,” I made answer, as I threw on my robe to go home with them.

Who acts: I · What happens: answer, throw, go · To what, where: robe

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 (I), 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	_	4 cool	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	4 cool	advmod
3	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	4 cool	advmod
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cool	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 cool	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 answer	nsubj
8	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	aux
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 threw	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 robe	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 robe	nmod:poss
16	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 threw	advcl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	may	I			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	I	my robe		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination
3	go	to-infinitive	I not said here		with shadows = shadow; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 120