In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 65
All that he could do was to send Shinzaburō to the high-priest Ryōseki, of Shin-Banzui-In, with a letter praying for immediate religious help.
Who acts: letter · What happens: be, pray
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 (letter), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 send | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 send | aux |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 send | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 priest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 high | punct |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obl |
| 15 | Ryōseki | Ryōseki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 priest | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shin | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Shin | case |
| 18 | Shin | Shin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Banzui | punct |
| 20 | Banzui | Banzui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Shin | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 In | punct |
| 22 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 Shin | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 letter | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 letter | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 letter | det |
| 26 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | parataxis |
| 27 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 letter | acl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 help | case |
| 29 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 help | amod |
| 30 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 help | amod |
| 31 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 praying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive · do-support | to the high priest; of Shin and Banzui; Shinzaburō obj; a letter parataxis; send property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | a letter not said here | for immediate religious help | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=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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