In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 119
Come! will you not allow her to stay here to-night?”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, not allow, stay · To what, where: grateful
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 (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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allow | advmod |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stay | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not allow | future | you | grateful | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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