In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 57
His counsellors prayed him to forego his purpose, declaring that the vision could only intensify his grief.
Who acts: counsellors, vision, book · What happens: pray, forego, declare, intensify, purpose · To what, where: book, purpose, grief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsellors, vision, book), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 counsellors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 forego | mark |
| 6 | forego | forego | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prayed | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forego | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 declaring | punct |
| 10 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 prayed | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 intensify | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vision | det |
| 13 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intensify | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 intensify | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 intensify | advmod |
| 16 | intensify | intensify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 declaring | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grief | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intensify | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | book's counsellors | book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forego | to-infinitive | book's counsellors not said here | book's purpose | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | gerund | book's counsellors not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | intensify | could | the vision | book's grief | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient | ||||
| 5 | purpose | book | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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