In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 26
And she gave Tomozō a cunning counsel,—telling him to make conditions with the dead.
Who acts: passion · What happens: give, tell, make · To what, where: cunning counsel, Tomozō, conditions · 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 (passion), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 counsel | det |
| 6 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 counsel | amod |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 telling | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 telling | advcl |
| 14 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dead | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | passion | a cunning counsel | Tomozō | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tomozō=Recipient counsel=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | passion not said here | Tomozō | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | passion not said here | conditions | with the dead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset condition=Product |
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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