In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 43
“My great mistake was in having introduced you to her; for it seems that she fell in love with you at once.
Who acts: it, two, My · What happens: introduce, seem, fall, mistake · To what, where: great mistake, two, love · 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 (it, two, My), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 introduced | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mistake | amod |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 introduced | aux:pass |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 introduced | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 introduced | aux |
| 8 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 seems | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 introduced | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 introduced | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seems | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seems | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce in a quote | past · perfect · passive | My great mistake | two | you obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | two | love | with you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | mistake in a quote | My | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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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