In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 24

“If the woman be a ghost,”—said Yusai to the frightened servant, “—if the woman be a ghost, your master must die very soon,—unless something extraordinary can be done to save him.

Who acts: Yusai, woman, master · What happens: be, say, die, do, save · To what, where: ghost, frightened servant, something, master · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Yusai, woman, master), 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	_	7 ghost	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 be	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ghost	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ghost	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 ghost	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Yusai	Yusai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 servant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 servant	det
15	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 servant	amod
16	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ghost	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 ghost	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 woman	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 woman	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ghost	nsubj
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 ghost	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ghost	det
25	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 servant	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 die	punct
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 die	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ghost	parataxis
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 die	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
35	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	40 done	mark
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 done	nsubj
37	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 something	amod
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 done	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 done	aux:pass
40	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 die	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 save	mark
42	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 done	advcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 save	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		a ghost			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Yusai		the frightened servant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	infinitive	the woman	a ghost			tree rules
4	die in a quote	must	your master			soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can · passive		something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	save in a quote	to-infinitive		master			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 4, sentence 24

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 24