In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 13

Tomozō had promised Yusai never to speak to any other person—not even to O-Miné—of the strange events that were taking place.

Who acts: Tomozō, strange events · What happens: promise, not speak, take · To what, where: place · 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 (Tomozō, strange events), 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	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	aux
3	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Yusai	Yusai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	xcomp
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 speak	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 person	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 person	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 Miné	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 Miné	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	18 Miné	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 Miné	case
16	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Miné	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Miné	punct
18	Miné	Miné	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 person	nmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 events	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 events	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 events	det
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 events	amod
23	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 speak	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 taking	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taking	aux
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 events	acl:relcl
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Tomozō		Yusai xcomp	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tomozō not said here		to any other person to O Miné; of the strange events	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent
3	take	past · progressive	the strange events	place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 13