In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 129
I asked if any of the young men now in the settlement could do as much.
Who acts: I, any · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: settlement
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, any), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 do | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 any | nmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 do | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 settlement | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 settlement | det |
| 12 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | could | any of the young men | the settlement | now | vn act-114-1 «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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