In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 38

I thought that we were to make another visit together to the house of the Lady Iijima; and I wanted to take to her some little present as a return for our kind reception.

Who acts: I, we, our · What happens: think, make, want, take, receive · To what, where: visit · 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 (I, we, our), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 make	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 visit	det
9	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Iijima	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Iijima	det
16	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Iijima	compound
17	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 present	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 present	nmod:poss
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 present	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 present	amod
28	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 return	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 return	det
31	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 reception	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 reception	nmod:poss
34	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 reception	amod
35	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past	we	another visit	to the house of the Lady Iijima; together property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Product
3	want	past	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		to Yamamoto's little present result; as a return; for our kind reception	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to present=Result
5	receive		our			nom reception «communication 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 38