In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 45
Then go to-day,—as soon as you can,—to Yanaka-no-Sasaki, and try to find their home!…”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, try, find · To what, where: home
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 soon | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 go | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 can | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 can | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 soon | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yanaka | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Yanaka | case |
| 16 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 go | parataxis |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sasaki | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 Sasaki | det |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sasaki | punct |
| 20 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Yanaka | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 try | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 try | cc |
| 23 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 try | xcomp |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 29 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | then; day | Yanaka and no Sasaki parataxis; soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yanaka's home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
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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