In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 116
To my thinking, the only attractive character in the story is that of O-Yoné: type of the old-time loyal and loving servant,—intelligent, shrewd, full of resource,—faithful not only unto death, but beyond death….
Who acts: only attractive character, my · What happens: be, think, type · To what, where: type loyal servant, old time
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 (only attractive character, my), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 thinking | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nmod:poss |
| 3 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 character | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 character | amod |
| 7 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 character | amod |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 character | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 servant | cop |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 servant | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Yoné | case |
| 15 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Yoné | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yoné | punct |
| 17 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 type | punct |
| 19 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | compound |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 old | punct |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 type | nmod |
| 25 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servant | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 loving | cc |
| 27 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 loyal | conj |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 servant | punct |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 intelligent | punct |
| 31 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servant | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shrewd | punct |
| 33 | shrewd | shrewd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 intelligent | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 full | punct |
| 35 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 intelligent | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 resource | case |
| 37 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 full | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 faithful | punct |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 faithful | punct |
| 40 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 intelligent | conj |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 death | advmod |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 death | advmod |
| 43 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 44 death | case |
| 44 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 faithful | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 death | punct |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 death | cc |
| 47 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 48 death | case |
| 48 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 servant | conj |
| 49 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 28 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only attractive character in the story | type loyal servant but death | to my thinking; of O Yoné; death conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think | my | nom thinking «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | type | the old time | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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