In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 19
Even before the brief visit was over, they contrived,—unheard by the old doctor,—to pledge themselves to each other for life.
Who acts: brief visit, people · What happens: be, contrive, pledge · To what, where: people, each
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 (brief visit, people), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 10 contrived | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 over | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 4 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 visit | amod |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 contrived | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrived | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 contrived | nsubj |
| 10 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrived | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 unheard | punct |
| 13 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 contrived | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 doctor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doctor | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 doctor | amod |
| 17 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unheard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pledge | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 pledge | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pledge | mark |
| 21 | pledge | pledge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 unheard | parataxis |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 pledge | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 21 pledge | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pledge | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the brief visit | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contrive | past | people | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pledge | to-infinitive | people | to each goal; for life | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to each=Goal |
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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