In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 28

_ But Tomozō went out to meet them in the dark, and even found courage to say to them what his wife had told him to say:—

Who acts: _, courage, wife · What happens: go out, meet, find, say, tell · To what, where: conditions, dark, courage, wife, _ · 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 (_, courage, wife), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 Tomozō	cc
3	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 _	conj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meet	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 found	advmod
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 found	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 told	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 say	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	_ but Tomozō				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	to-infinitive	_ but Tomozō not said here	conditions = condition		the dark		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	find	past	_ but Tomozō not said here	courage				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent courage=Attribute clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	courage not said here		conditions = condition			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Tomozō's wife	_		what obj	tree rules
6	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tomozō's wife not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 28

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 28