In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 7
And our master told us to give you a book which he believed would be of service to you.
Who acts: master, book · What happens: tell, give, believe, be · To what, where: us, you · 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 (master, book), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 service | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 book | acl:relcl |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 service | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 service | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 service | case |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | our master | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | our master not said here | you | to you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | believe | past | a book | master nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | would | a book | of service | tree rules |
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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