In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 30
And in the meantime, Tomozō, say nothing to any other person,—not even to your wife,—about this matter.
What happens: say · To what, where: nothing, other person, meantime · 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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 say | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 meantime | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meantime | det |
| 4 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tomozō | punct |
| 6 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 meantime | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meantime | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 person | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wife | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 wife | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 matter | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 matter | punct |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 matter | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 matter | det |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | nothing | any other person | the meantime | your wife and this matter parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to person=Recipient |
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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