In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 23
Should the truth prove to be what Tomozō imagined, then the young samurai was a doomed man.
Who acts: truth, Tomozō, young samurai · What happens: prove, be, imagine, doom · To what, where: doomed man
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 (truth, Tomozō, young samurai), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 prove | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prove | nsubj |
| 4 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 what | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 what | cop |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 prove | obj |
| 8 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 imagined | nsubj |
| 9 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 man | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 samurai | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 samurai | amod |
| 14 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prove | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | should | the truth | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | imagine | past | Tomozō | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | the young samurai | a doomed man | then | 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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