In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 32
Therefore if you will give us a hundred _ryō_, I can take the _o-fuda_ away without being afraid of losing our only means of support.”
Who acts: you, I, our · What happens: give, take, be, lose, mean · To what, where: hundred ryō, us, _
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 (you, I, our), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ryō | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ryō | nummod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 hundred | punct |
| 10 | ryō | ryō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 _ | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 fuda | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 o | punct |
| 20 | fuda | fuda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 afraid | mark |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 afraid | cop |
| 25 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 take | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 losing | mark |
| 27 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 afraid | advcl |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 means | advmod |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 losing | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 support | case |
| 32 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | a hundred ryō | us | therefore property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient ryō=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | can | I | the _ | of fuda; away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent _=Theme of fuda=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | I not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | our | of support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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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