In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 19
So I now wish to return your kindness in some way or other.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, return · To what, where: kindness, way
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 wish | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 other | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | now | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | your kindness | some way | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme |
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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