In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 121
“Ah,” said the wife, “it is not good to go out there on the night of the Bon!”
Who acts: wife, it · What happens: say, not be, go out · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, it), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 good | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 good | csubj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bon | det |
| 23 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 night | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bon | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | to-infinitive | there | night | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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