In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 21

On hearing these words, the priest knew that he was speaking with a Tengu; and he frankly made answer:—“My friend, I have long ceased to care for the things of this world: I am now seventy years of age; neither fame nor pleasure has any attraction for me.

Who acts: priest, fame · What happens: hear, know, speak, make, cease, care · To what, where: words, answer, friend, seventy years, attraction · 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 (priest, fame), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 knew	advcl
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 speaking	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speaking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 speaking	aux
12	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 knew	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Tengu	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Tengu	det
15	Tengu	Tengu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
19	frankly	frankly	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	parataxis
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 ceased	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 ceased	punct
25	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ceased	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ceased	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ceased	aux
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 ceased	advmod
31	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 knew	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 care	mark
33	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ceased	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 things	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 things	det
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 care	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 world	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 world	det
39	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 things	nmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 years	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 years	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 years	cop
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 seventy	advmod
44	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 years	nummod
45	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knew	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 age	case
47	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 years	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 has	punct
49	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	50 fame	det
50	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 has	nsubj
51	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	52 pleasure	cc
52	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fame	conj
53	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	conj
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 attraction	det
55	attraction	attraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 has	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 me	case
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 attraction	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the priest not said here	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	know	past	the priest				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past · progressive	priest			with a Tengu	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tengu=Co-Agent
4	make	past	priest	answer		frankly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
5	cease in a quote	present · perfect · passive		My friend		I nsubj; long property	tree rules
6	care in a quote	to-infinitive				for the things of this world	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
7	is a in a quote	present	the priest = priest	seventy years	of age; now		tree rules
8	have in a quote	present	neither fame nor pleasure	any attraction		for the priest = priest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attraction=Patient

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 21

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 21