In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 44

I am afraid that you must have said something to encourage this affection—when you were in that little room together.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, say, encourage · To what, where: something, affection, little room · 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, you), 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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 afraid	ccomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 encourage	mark
11	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 something	acl
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 affection	det
13	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 encourage	obj
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 room	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 room	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 room	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 room	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 room	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 room	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 room	amod
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 room	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	must · perfect	you	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	encourage	to-infinitive	you not said here	this affection			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme
4	is	past	you		that little room	together property	tree rules

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 44

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 44