In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 104
My friend asked me whether the story had interested me; and I answered by telling him that I wanted to go to the cemetery of Shin-Banzui-In,—so as to realize more definitely the local color of the author’s studies.
Who acts: friend, story, I, author · What happens: ask, have, answer, tell, want, go · To what, where: me, story, cemetery, local color · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, story, I, author), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | advcl |
| 9 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 had | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 interested | iobj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 telling | mark |
| 16 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 telling | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 telling | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cemetery | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cemetery | det |
| 25 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Shin | case |
| 27 | Shin | Shin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cemetery | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Banzui | punct |
| 29 | Banzui | Banzui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Shin | conj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 In | punct |
| 31 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 Shin | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 In | punct |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 realize | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 realize | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 realize | mark |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 realize | mark |
| 37 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 definitely | advmod |
| 39 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 37 realize | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 color | det |
| 41 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 color | amod |
| 42 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 realize | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 studies | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 author | det |
| 45 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 studies | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 author | case |
| 47 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 color | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | My friend | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the story | interested property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | I | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | I not said here | story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the cemetery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | realize | to-infinitive | My friend not said here | the local color of the author's studies | definitely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer color=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | study | the author | nom study «act transitive»: poss=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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