In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 93

But in another moment it occurred to me that I could very well venture to swim out to the lights.

Who acts: opportunity, I · What happens: occur, venture, swim out · To what, where: me, lights

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 (opportunity, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 occurred	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occurred	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 occurred	nsubj
6	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 occurred	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 venture	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 venture	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 venture	aux
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 venture	amod
14	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occurred	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 swim	mark
16	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 occurred	advcl
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 swim	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 lights	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lights	det
20	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swim	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	opportunity	me		moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	venture	could	I					tree rules
3	swim out	to-infinitive	opportunity not said here		the lights		out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to light=Destination

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 93