In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 112
Although a samurai by birth and training, he had to beg a priest to save him from ghosts.
Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: have, beg, save · To what, where: priest, Shinzaburō, ghosts
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 (Shinzaburō), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 samurai | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 samurai | det |
| 3 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 samurai | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 training | cc |
| 7 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 birth | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 samurai | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 beg | mark |
| 12 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beg | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 save | mark |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beg | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 save | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 ghosts | case |
| 19 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 save | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Shinzaburō | although a samurai by birth and training | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | a priest | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | Shinzaburō | ghosts | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from ghost=Source |
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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