In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 3

Often I was told that the heart of a man changes as quickly as the sky of autumn;—yet surely the heart of Hagiwara Sama cannot be so cruel that he should really intend to exclude me in this way!…

Who acts: heart · What happens: tell, change, not be, intend, exclude · To what, where: I, me, way · 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 (heart), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 changes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changes	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod
11	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 changes	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 sky	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changes	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 autumn	case
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sky	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 heart	punct
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 surely	advmod
22	surely	surely	ADV	_	24 heart	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 heart	det
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cruel	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Sama	case
26	Hagiwara	Hagiwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Sama	compound
27	Sama	Sama	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 heart	nmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cruel	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 cruel	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 cruel	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 cruel	advmod
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 intend	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 intend	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 intend	aux
36	really	really	ADV	_	37 intend	advmod
37	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cruel	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 exclude	mark
39	exclude	exclude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 intend	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 exclude	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 way	case
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 exclude	obl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
45	…	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		I		often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	change	present	the heart of a man			as the sky of autumn; quickly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	can	the heart of Hagiwara Sama			cruel property	tree rules
4	intend	should	heart				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	exclude not said to happen	to-infinitive	heart not said here	me	this way		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=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 3

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 3