In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 92
“Ah, what a hateful story!” returned O-Yoné.
What happens: return
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: 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 Yoné | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 O | punct |
| 13 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | of Yoné; what a hateful story nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of yoné=Initial_Location |
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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