In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 33
Shinzaburō knew nothing of what had happened; but his disappointment and his anxiety had resulted in a prolonged illness.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, disappointment · What happens: know, happen, result, prolong, disappoint · To what, where: nothing, prolonged illness
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 (Shinzaburō, disappointment), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 resulted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 resulted | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resulted | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anxiety | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 anxiety | nmod:poss |
| 14 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappointment | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 resulted | aux |
| 16 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 illness | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 illness | det |
| 19 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 illness | amod |
| 20 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resulted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Shinzaburō | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | result | past · perfect | Shinzaburō's disappointment and Shinzaburō's anxiety | a prolonged illness | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in illness=Location | ||||
| 4 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | disappoint | Shinzaburō | nom disappointment «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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