In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 113
In every way he proved himself contemptible; and O-Tsuyu did quite right in choking him to death.”
Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: prove, choke · To what, where: Shinzaburō, way
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proved | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 proved | nsubj |
| 5 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 proved | obj |
| 7 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 proved | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 right | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 right | cc |
| 10 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 right | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tsuyu | punct |
| 12 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 O | conj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | aux |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 right | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 proved | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 choking | mark |
| 17 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 right | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 choking | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 choking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 right | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | every way | contemptible property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | choke | gerund | Shinzaburō not said here | Shinzaburō | to death result | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result |
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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