In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 32
“Now,” said the Tengu, “you have only to wait here for awhile, with your eyes shut.
Who acts: Tengu, you · What happens: say, have, wait · 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 (Tengu, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tengu | det |
| 7 | Tengu | Tengu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 wait | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wait | mark |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wait | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 awhile | case |
| 17 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 14 wait | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shut | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 shut | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shut | nsubj |
| 22 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wait | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tengu | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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