In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 17
At last, in a night of storm, O-Yoné startled him from slumber with a cry of reproach, and stooped above his pillow, and said to him: “Have a care how you trifle with us!
Who acts: Yoné, Tomozō, reproach · What happens: startle, stoop, say, have, trifle, cry · To what, where: Tomozō, slumber, pillow, care · 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 (Yoné, Tomozō, reproach), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 startled | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 storm | case |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 startled | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 13 startled | discourse |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yoné | punct |
| 12 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 startled | nsubj |
| 13 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 startled | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 slumber | case |
| 16 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 startled | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cry | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cry | det |
| 19 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slumber | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 reproach | case |
| 21 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cry | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stooped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stooped | cc |
| 24 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 startled | conj |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 27 pillow | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stooped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 startled | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 Have | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Have | punct |
| 35 | Have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 care | det |
| 37 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Have | obj |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 trifle | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 trifle | nsubj |
| 40 | trifle | trifle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Have | advcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 us | case |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 trifle | obl |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past | Yoné | Tomozō | slumber with a cry of reproach | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | stoop | past | Yoné not said here | Tomozō's pillow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above pillow=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Tomozō | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | a care | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient | |||||
| 5 | trifle in a quote | present | Tomozō | with us | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with we=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cry | reproach | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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