In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 104

Possibly my mistress betrayed her liking for you in some words which found their way to her father’s ears; and, in that case, O-Kuni—the new wife—might have planned to make the doctor tell you that we were dead, so as to bring about a separation.

Who acts: mistress, words, case, we · What happens: betray, like, find, plan, make, tell · To what, where: wife, words, way, new wife, doctor, you · 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 (mistress, words, case, we), 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	Possibly	possibly	ADV	_	4 betrayed	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistress	nmod:poss
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 betrayed	nsubj
4	betrayed	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 betrayed	obj
6	liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 betrayed	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 liking	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 liking	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 words	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 ears	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ears	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 case	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 case	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 case	det
26	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tell	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Kuni	punct
28	O	o	INTJ	_	30 Kuni	discourse
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Kuni	punct
30	Kuni	Kuni	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 case	appos
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 wife	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wife	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wife	amod
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tell	nsubj
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 planned	punct
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 planned	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 planned	aux
38	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 wife	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 planned	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 doctor	det
42	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
43	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 betrayed	parataxis
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 tell	iobj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 dead	mark
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 dead	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 dead	cop
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tell	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bring	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	53 bring	advmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 bring	mark
52	to	to	PART	_	53 bring	mark
53	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 tell	conj
54	about	about	ADP	_	56 separation	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 separation	det
56	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bring	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 betrayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	betray	past	my mistress	wife			possibly property	tree rules
2	like	gerund	my mistress not said here			some words	for you	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for you=Attribute
3	find	past	some words	words's way			to mistress's father's ears	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	plan	might · perfect		the new wife not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	make	to-infinitive		the doctor				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doctor=Product
6	tell speech: assert	present	that case		you		the new wife nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	is	past	we				dead property	tree rules
8	bring	to-infinitive	that case not said here				about a separation	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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 3, sentence 104

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 104