In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 158

And the meaning is thus explained: Never speak of your fear when you feel afraid at sea;—if you say that you are afraid, the waves will suddenly rise higher.

Who acts: you, waves, your · What happens: explain, not speak, feel, say, be, rise · To what, where: meaning · 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 (you, waves, your), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 explained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explained	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	aux:pass
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 explained	advmod
6	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct
8	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 speak	advmod
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fear	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fear	nmod:poss
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speak	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 feel	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
15	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	advcl
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 sea	case
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 afraid	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 say	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 afraid	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 afraid	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 afraid	cop
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rise	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 afraid	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 waves	det
30	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rise	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 rise	aux
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	33 rise	advmod
33	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 say	ccomp
34	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 rise	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · passive		the meaning	thus property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	not speak speech: other	infinitive			of your fear	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	present	you		afraid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present	you		afraid property	tree rules
6	rise	future	the waves		high, suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fear		your			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 158

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 158