In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 82

He confessed that he had made some erroneous predictions; but he said that these mistakes had been entirely due to his own miscomprehension of certain texts or diagrams.

Who acts: teller, mistakes · What happens: confess, make, say, be · To what, where: erroneous predictions · 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 (teller, mistakes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confessed	nsubj
2	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 confessed	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 predictions	det
8	erroneous	erroneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 predictions	amod
9	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 confessed	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 miscomprehension	mark
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 mistakes	det
16	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 miscomprehension	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 miscomprehension	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 miscomprehension	cop
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	24 miscomprehension	advmod
20	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 miscomprehension	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 due	fixed
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 miscomprehension	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 miscomprehension	amod
24	miscomprehension	miscomprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 texts	case
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 texts	amod
27	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 miscomprehension	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 diagrams	cc
29	diagrams	diagram	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 texts	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confess	past	teller			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past · perfect	teller	some erroneous predictions		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prediction=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	teller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	this mistakes		due teller's own miscomprehension; of certain texts or diagrams; teller nmod:poss; entirely property	tree rules

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, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 82