In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 47
Shinzaburō, startled though not convinced, resolved after a moment’s reflection to follow the advice of the _ninsomi_, and to go to Shitaya.
Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: startle, resolve, follow, go · To what, where: advice, Shitaya
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 (Shinzaburō), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 startled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shinzaburō | punct |
| 3 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | though | though | ADV | _ | 6 convinced | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 convinced | advmod |
| 6 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 startled | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resolved | punct |
| 8 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 startled | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 reflection | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 13 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resolved | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolved | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 advice | det |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ninsomi | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ninsomi | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 ninsomi | punct |
| 21 | ninsomi | ninsomi | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 advice | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 advice | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 startled | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Shitaya | case |
| 28 | Shitaya | Shitaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past | Shinzaburō | convinced property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | Shinzaburō not said here | after a moment's reflection | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | the advice of the ninsomi | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | Shitaya | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shitaya=Initial_Location |
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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