In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 41

Listen to me now, sir,—I beg of you,—if you wish to save yourself: otherwise you have less than twenty days to live.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: listen, beg, wish, save, have, live · To what, where: sir, me, yourself

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, I), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Listen	obl
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sir	punct
6	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listen	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sir	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 beg	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 beg	nsubj
10	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 beg	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beg	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 wish	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
17	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 save	mark
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 save	iobj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
25	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	27 twenty	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 less	fixed
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 live	mark
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 days	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here	sir	me	now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	beg speech: request	present	I				of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		yourself			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
5	have	present	you			day	otherwise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	live	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 41