In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 67
But if they were able to pray, they could not ask for anything more than they already receive from the youth who feeds and tends them.
Who acts: worms, youth · What happens: be, pray, not ask, receive, feed, tend · To what, where: youth, worms
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 (worms, youth), 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 | _ | 12 ask | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 able | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ask | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pray | mark |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ask | advmod |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 anything | case |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 ask | obl |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 anything | amod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 receive | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 receive | nsubj |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 receive | advmod |
| 19 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 youth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 feeds | nsubj |
| 24 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 youth | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tends | cc |
| 26 | tends | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 feeds | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tends | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | worms = worm | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | to-infinitive | worms = worm not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask | could | worms = worm | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | receive | present | worms = worm | the youth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from youth=Source | ||||
| 5 | feed | present | the youth | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tend | present | the youth not said here | worms = worm | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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