In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 31
But if we could obtain the sum of a hundred _ryō_ in gold, we should be able to please you, because we should then need no help from anybody.
Who acts: we · What happens: obtain, be, please, need, sum · To what, where: sum, you, help, anybody, hundred ryō
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 (we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 able | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 obtain | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 obtain | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 obtain | aux |
| 5 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obtain | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ryō | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ryō | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ryō | nummod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 hundred | punct |
| 12 | ryō | ryō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sum | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 gold | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obtain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obtain | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 please | mark |
| 22 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 please | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 need | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 need | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 need | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 need | aux |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 need | advmod |
| 29 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 please | conj |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 help | det |
| 31 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 need | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 anybody | case |
| 33 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 help | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain a condition, not said to happen | could | we | the sum of a hundred ryō | gold conj | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | should | we | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | need | should | we | no help | anybody | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||
| 5 | sum | a hundred ryō | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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