In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 83

To do him justice I must mention that in my own case—(he told my fortune four times),—his predictions were fulfilled in such wise that I became afraid of them.

Who acts: I, teller · What happens: do, mention, tell, fulfil, become, predict · To what, where: teller, own case, fortune, predictions, such wise · 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 (I, teller), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 do	mark
2	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mention	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	obj
4	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 mention	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mention	aux
7	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 mention	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 case	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 case	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 case	amod
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mention	obl
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mention	parataxis
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fortune	nmod:poss
18	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 times	nummod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obl:unmarked
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fulfilled	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 fulfilled	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 predictions	nmod:poss
25	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fulfilled	aux:pass
27	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wise	case
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wise	amod
30	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fulfilled	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 became	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 became	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fulfilled	advcl
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 became	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mention	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	teller			justice obj	tree rules
2	mention speech: other	must	I		my own case			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	teller	my fortune		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient
4	fulfil	past · passive		teller's predictions	such wise			tree rules
5	become	past	I				afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	predict		teller					nom prediction «cognition transitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/83/

🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 83