In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 125
“Please remain; but do not speak loud—because there is a troublesome fellow living close by,—a _ninsomi_[7] called Hakuōdō Yusai, who tells peoples fortunes by looking at their faces.
Who acts: you, troublesome fellow, Hakuōdō · What happens: remain, not speak, be, live, call, tell · To what, where: peoples fortunes · 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 (you, troublesome fellow, Hakuōdō), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 remain | discourse |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 speak | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 speak | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 speak | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 speak | advmod |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speak | xcomp |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 is | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fellow | det |
| 15 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellow | amod |
| 16 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fellow | acl |
| 18 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 living | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 living | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ninsomi | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ninsomi | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ninsomi | det |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 ninsomi | punct |
| 24 | ninsomi | ninsomi | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 fellow | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 26 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 27 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 ninsomi | appos |
| 28 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 7 | acl |
| 30 | Hakuōdō | Hakuōdō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 31 | Yusai | Yusai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hakuōdō | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tells | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 tells | nsubj |
| 34 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Hakuōdō | acl:relcl |
| 35 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fortunes | compound |
| 36 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tells | obj |
| 37 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 38 looking | mark |
| 38 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 tells | advcl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 faces | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 faces | nmod:poss |
| 41 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 looking | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | loud property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a troublesome fellow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | gerund | a troublesome fellow not said here | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call in a quote | participle | Hakuōdō xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Hakuōdō | peoples fortunes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | look in a quote | gerund | Hakuōdō not said here | at fortunes's faces | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=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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