In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 106
But I was able to prevent her from cutting off her hair; and I persuaded her at last to become a nun only in her heart.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, prevent, cut off, persuade, become · To what, where: mistress, hair, last, nun
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), 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 | _ | 4 able | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 prevent | mark |
| 6 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 prevent | obj |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 cutting | mark |
| 9 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 prevent | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutting | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 persuaded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 persuaded | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 persuaded | nsubj |
| 16 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 persuaded | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 persuaded | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 become | mark |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 persuaded | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 nun | det |
| 23 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 heart | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nun | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | I not said here | mistress | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | gerund | I not said here | mistress's hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | persuade | past | I | mistress | last | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | I not said here | a nun in mistress's heart | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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