In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 7

Even if our secret were to become known, and my father were to kill me for what I have done, still—after death itself—I could never cease to think of you.

Who acts: secret, father, I · What happens: become, know, kill, do, not cease, think · To what, where: me

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 (secret, father, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	7 become	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 become	mark
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secret	nmod:poss
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 become	mark
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 become	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kill	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kill	cc
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kill	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kill	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 kill	mark
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 become	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 done	mark
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 done	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 kill	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
23	still	still	ADV	_	21 done	advmod
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 cease	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cease	obl
27	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 death	nmod:unmarked
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 itself	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 cease	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cease	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 cease	advmod
32	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 become	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 think	mark
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cease	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 think	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	our secret				tree rules
2	know	participle	our secret not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	kill	past	my father	me			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	do	present · perfect	I		still	what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	not cease	could	I		after death secret		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 7

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 7