In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 94
On these occasions I could get a few hours’ chat with him.
Who acts: I, few hours · What happens: get, chat · To what, where: chat, occasions
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, few hours), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasions | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 occasions | det |
| 3 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hours | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hours | amod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 9 hours | case |
| 11 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | I | a few hours's chat | this occasions | with fugitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chat=Theme on occasion=Source | ||
| 2 | chat | a few hours | nom chat «communication 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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