In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 35
“Mistress, I told you that it was not right to trouble this man, —as we have no just cause of ill will against him.
Who acts: I, Mistress, we · What happens: tell, not be, have · To what, where: you, cause · 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 (I, Mistress, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 2 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mistress | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 right | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 right | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 right | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 right | advmod |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 trouble | mark |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 right | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 right | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 cause | det |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 cause | advmod |
| 23 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 will | case |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 will | amod |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cause | acl:relcl |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 will | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | I | you | Mistress vocative | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | Mistress | trouble advcl; this man nsubj; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=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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