In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 5

But we have been waiting for you, because he predicted that you would come to-day to this house, at this very hour.

Who acts: we, Shōko, you · What happens: wait, predict, come · To what, where: house

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 (we, Shōko, you), 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	_	5 waiting	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 waiting	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 predicted	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 predicted	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 predicted	nsubj
11	predicted	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 predicted	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hour	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 hour	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 hour	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hour	advmod
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect · progressive	we			for you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	predict	past	Shōko				vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	come	would	you	this house	day; hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 5