In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 119
[3] I give the story substantially as it was told to me; but I have not been able to compare it with any published text.
Who acts: 3, I · What happens: give, tell, not be, compare, publish · To what, where: story, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (3, I), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | substantially | substantially | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 told | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 give | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 told | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 able | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 give | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 compare | mark |
| 23 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 compare | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 text | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 text | det |
| 27 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 text | amod |
| 28 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 compare | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | 3 | the story | I nsubj; substantially property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | story | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present · perfect | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare | to-infinitive | I not said here | story | with any published text | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with text=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | publish | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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