In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 96
The last time we met he told me of an exact Chinese science of divination which he regretted never having been able to learn.
Who acts: we, fugitive, exact Chinese science · What happens: meet, tell, regret, have, not be, learn · To what, where: last time, me · 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 (we, fugitive, exact Chinese science), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 science | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 science | det |
| 11 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 science | amod |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 science | amod |
| 13 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 divination | case |
| 15 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 science | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 regretted | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 regretted | nsubj |
| 18 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 science | acl:relcl |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 able | advmod |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 able | nsubj |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 regretted | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 learn | mark |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | we | the last time not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | fugitive | me | time | of a exact Chinese science of divination | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 3 | regret | past | a exact Chinese science of divination | fugitive nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not is | participle | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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