In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 47

But I fear that I did not act like a person who felt interested in the subject; for, even while I tried to listen, I began to muse.

Who acts: I, person · What happens: fear, not act, feel, try, listen, begin

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 (I, person), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 fear	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fear	nsubj
3	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 act	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 act	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 act	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 act	advmod
8	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fear	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 act	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 person	acl:relcl
14	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 felt	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 subject	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 subject	det
17	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 interested	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	3 fear	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 tried	advmod
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 tried	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tried	nsubj
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 listen	mark
26	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tried	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 muse	mark
31	muse	muse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fear	present	I		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not act	past · do-support	I	like a person	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like person=Attribute
3	feel	past	a person	interested property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	try	past	I		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	I		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	muse	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 47