In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 29
Months passed; and O-Tsuyu, little imagining the true cause of Shinzaburō’s neglect, believed that her love had been scorned.
Who acts: Months, O Tsuyu, Shinzaburō, Tsuyu · What happens: pass, imagine, believe, scorn, cause, neglect · To what, where: true cause, love, neglect · 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 (Months, O Tsuyu, Shinzaburō, Tsuyu), 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 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 believed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 believed | cc |
| 5 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tsuyu | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tsuyu | punct |
| 7 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 believed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Tsuyu | amod |
| 10 | imagining | imagine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 little | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cause | amod |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imagining | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 neglect | case |
| 15 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 neglect | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Shinzaburō | case |
| 17 | neglect | neglect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cause | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tsuyu | punct |
| 19 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 scorned | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scorned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scorned | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 scorned | aux:pass |
| 25 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 believed | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Months | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | imagine | gerund | O Tsuyu not said here | the true cause of Shinzaburō's neglect | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | O Tsuyu | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | scorn | past · perfect · passive | Tsuyu's love | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cause | Shinzaburō's neglect | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | neglect | Shinzaburō | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | love | Tsuyu | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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