In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 16

Astonished at hearing himself thus addressed, the priest replied:—“Really, I cannot remember to have ever seen you before: please tell me who you are.”

Who acts: monk, priest, you · What happens: hear, address, reply, not remember, see, tell · To what, where: you, priest · 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 (monk, priest, you), 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	Astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hearing	amod
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	3 hearing	mark
3	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 addressed	advcl
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 addressed	nsubj
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 addressed	advmod
6	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 priest	det
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 addressed	parataxis
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
14	Really	really	ADV	_	19 remember	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Really	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 remember	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 remember	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 remember	advmod
19	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 seen	advmod
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 addressed	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 seen	obj
25	before	before	ADV	_	23 seen	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
27	please	please	INTJ	_	28 tell	discourse
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 addressed	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	28 tell	ccomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 who	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 who	cop
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	monk not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	address	past	monk				thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reply speech: assert	past	the priest					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not remember in a quote	can	the priest = priest					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	see in a quote	infinitive · perfect	monk not said here	you		ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	monk not said here		the priest = priest			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	is a in a quote	present	you					tree rules

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 16