In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 20

If there be anything that you would like to have, or to know, or to see,—anything that I can do for you, in short,—please to tell me; for as I happen to possess, in a small degree, the Six Supernatural Powers, I am able to gratify almost any wish that you can express.”

Who acts: you, I, wish · What happens: be, like, have, know, see, do · To what, where: anything, me, wish · 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, I, wish), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 anything	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 anything	cop
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 like	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anything	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 anything	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 anything	punct
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 anything	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 do	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 anything	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 do	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 short	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 short	case
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 do	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 anything	punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
33	please	please	INTJ	_	35 tell	discourse
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anything	parataxis
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 happen	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 happen	mark
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 happen	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 happen	nsubj
41	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 possess	mark
43	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 happen	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 degree	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 degree	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 degree	det
47	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 degree	amod
48	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 possess	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Powers	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Powers	det
51	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 Powers	nummod
52	Supernatural	Supernatural	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Powers	compound
53	Powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 degree	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 able	punct
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 able	nsubj
56	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 able	cop
57	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tell	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 gratify	mark
59	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 able	xcomp
60	almost	almost	ADV	_	62 wish	advmod
61	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	62 wish	det
62	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 gratify	obj
63	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 express	nsubj
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 express	nsubj
65	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 express	aux
66	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 wish	acl:relcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
68	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		anything			tree rules
2	like	would	you				tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	know	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	see	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	can	I			for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
8	happen	present	I				tree rules
9	possess	to-infinitive	I not said here			a small degree and the Six Supernatural Powers parataxis	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
10	is	present	I			able property	tree rules
11	gratify	to-infinitive	I not said here	any wish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer
12	express	can	any wish			you nsubj	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 20

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 20