In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 20
O-Miné, the wife of Tomozō, had never till then known of these visits: even to her husband they had seemed like bad dreams.
Who acts: visits, husband · What happens: know, have, seem · To what, where: Miné, husband
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 (visits, husband), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Miné | discourse |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Miné | punct |
| 3 | Miné | Miné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Miné | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Tomozō | case |
| 8 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Miné | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 till | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | ADV | _ | 14 known | advmod |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 known | advmod |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 visits | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 visits | det |
| 17 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 known | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 husband | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 husband | acl:relcl |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | parataxis |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 dreams | case |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dreams | amod |
| 28 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seemed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect · passive | Miné | then; never | of this visits; till property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | visits = visit | Miné's husband not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Miné's husband | like bad dreams | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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