In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 36
“Know, sir, that the people who have been coming here, night after night, are dead!
Who acts: you, people · What happens: know, come, be
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 (you, people), 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 | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 2 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Know | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 coming | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 night | punct |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 night | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Know | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sir vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the people and night after night | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the people and night after night | dead property | 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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