In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 46

So—to be quite frank with you,—I decided that it would be better not to call upon you; and I purposely stayed away for a long time.

Who acts: I, blame · What happens: be, decide, not call, stay away · 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, blame), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 frank	advmod
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 frank	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	6 frank	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 frank	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 frank	advmod
6	frank	frank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 frank	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frank	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 decided	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 decided	nsubj
12	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frank	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 better	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 better	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 better	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 better	cop
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 decided	ccomp
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 call	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 call	mark
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decided	xcomp
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 call	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stayed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stayed	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stayed	nsubj
26	purposely	purposely	ADV	_	27 stayed	advmod
27	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frank	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 stayed	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stayed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive			with you; frank property	tree rules
2	decide	past	I			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	would	blame		good property	tree rules
4	not call not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		upon you	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stay away	past	I	time	away, purposely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 46