In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 36

Shinzaburō said to him:—“I have been sick ever since the beginning of spring;—even now I cannot eat anything….

Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: say, be, not eat, begin · To what, where: man, anything, spring · 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 (Shinzaburō), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 sick	advmod
13	since	since	ADP	_	15 beginning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beginning	det
15	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sick	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 spring	case
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beginning	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 now	advmod
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 eat	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 eat	advmod
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 eat	obj
27	….	..	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Shinzaburō		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present · perfect	Shinzaburō			since the beginning of spring; ever	sick property	tree rules
3	not eat in a quote	can	Shinzaburō	anything		now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	begin in a quote			spring				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 36