In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 72
I shall therefore tell you only this,—that the dead person has no desire to injure you out of hate, feels no enmity towards you: she is influenced, on the contrary, by the most passionate affection for you.
Who acts: I, dead person, passionate affection · What happens: tell, have, injure, feel, influence · To what, where: you, desire, hate, enmity, danger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, dead person, passionate affection), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 this | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 you | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 has | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 desire | det |
| 16 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 injure | mark |
| 18 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 desire | acl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 injure | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 hate | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hate | case |
| 22 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 injure | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feels | punct |
| 24 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 has | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 enmity | det |
| 26 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feels | obj |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 feels | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 influenced | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 influenced | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 influenced | aux:pass |
| 32 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 feels | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 contrary | punct |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 contrary | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 contrary | det |
| 36 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 influenced | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 affection | punct |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 affection | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 affection | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 passionate | advmod |
| 41 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 affection | amod |
| 42 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 influenced | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 affection | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | shall | I | you | therefore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | present | the dead person | no desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | injure | to-infinitive | the dead person not said here | you | hate | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel | present | no enmity | towards you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enmity=Theme | ||||
| 5 | influence | present · passive | the passionate affection for you | danger | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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