In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 22

I feel anxious only about my future birth; but as that is a matter in which no one can help me, it were useless to ask about it.

Who acts: I, that, one, it · What happens: feel, be, help, ask · To what, where: me, matter

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, that, one, it), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 birth	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 birth	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
7	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birth	amod
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 matter	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 matter	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 matter	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 help	obl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 help	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 help	aux
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 matter	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 useless	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 useless	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 useless	cop
26	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 help	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 ask	mark
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 useless	csubj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ask	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I			about my future birth; anxious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	that			as a matter	tree rules
3	help	can	no one	me	a matter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	is	past	it			useless property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				about friend	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 22