In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 103
I think that he wanted to deceive you,—which was not a difficult thing to do, because you are so confiding and trustful.
Who acts: I, Shijō, you · What happens: think, want, deceive, not be, do, confide · To what, where: you, difficult thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Shijō, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 deceive | mark |
| 7 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 deceive | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 thing | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thing | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 confiding | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 confiding | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 confiding | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 confiding | aux |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 confiding | advmod |
| 24 | confiding | confide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wanted | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 trustful | cc |
| 26 | trustful | trustful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 confiding | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | past | Shijō | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shijō not said here | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is a | past | a difficult thing | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Shijō not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | confide speech: other | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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