In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 143

“And if I should be disowned by my father, would you then let me come and live with you?”

Who acts: father, you, woman · What happens: disown, let, come, live · To what, where: woman

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 (father, you, woman), 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	_	15 let	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 disowned	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 disowned	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 disowned	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 disowned	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 disowned	aux:pass
7	disowned	disown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 let	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disowned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 disowned	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 live	cc
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 live	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	disown a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should · passive	my father	the woman = woman			tree rules
2	let in a quote	would	you	the woman = woman	then		tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	the woman = woman not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live in a quote	infinitive	the woman = woman not said here			with you	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location

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 143

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 143