In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 42
The doctor remained silent for a moment, as if collecting himself: then he resumed, in the quick light tone of a man resolved not to take trouble seriously:—
Who acts: doctor, man · What happens: remain, collect, resume, resolve, not take · To what, where: doctor, quick light tone, trouble
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 (doctor, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 collecting | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 collecting | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 collecting | mark |
| 11 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 remained | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 collecting | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 resumed | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 resumed | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resumed | nsubj |
| 16 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tone | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tone | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tone | det |
| 20 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tone | amod |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tone | compound |
| 22 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resumed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 resolved | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 resolved | nsubj |
| 26 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tone | advcl |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 take | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 resolved | xcomp |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 resumed | punct |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the doctor | moment | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | collect | gerund | the doctor not said here | doctor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | resume | past | doctor | the quick light tone | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | resolve | past | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not take | to-infinitive | a man not said here | trouble | seriously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
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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