In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 22
Now, however, he felt convinced that the statement of Tomozō was not a falsehood, and that something very strange was really going on in the house of Hagiwara.
Who acts: story, statement, something · What happens: feel, not be, go on, state · To what, where: falsehood, house, Tomozō
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, statement, something), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 felt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 felt | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 falsehood | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 statement | det |
| 10 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falsehood | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tomozō | case |
| 12 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 statement | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 falsehood | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 falsehood | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 falsehood | det |
| 16 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convinced | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 going | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 something | nsubj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 going | nsubj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 strange | advmod |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 going | advmod |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 felt | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 going | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 going | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Hagiwara | case |
| 31 | Hagiwara | Hagiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 house | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | story | now | convinced, however property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | the statement of Tomozō | a falsehood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go on | past · progressive | something that | the house of Hagiwara | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 4 | state | Tomozō | nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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