In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 63
Terror-stricken, the samurai hastened with all speed to the house of Yusai, and begged for his counsel and assistance.
Who acts: stricken samurai · What happens: hasten, beg · To what, where: stricken samurai, house
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 (stricken samurai), 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 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stricken | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terror | punct |
| 3 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 samurai | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 samurai | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 samurai | det |
| 6 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 samurai | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 speed | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 speed | det |
| 10 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hastened | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hastened | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Yusai | case |
| 15 | Yusai | Yusai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 begged | cc |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 counsel | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 21 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 assistance | cc |
| 23 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 counsel | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the stricken samurai not said here | the house of Yusai | with all speed | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the stricken samurai | for samurai's counsel and assistance | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for counsel=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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