In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 36
But it is certainly useless to fret yourself about Hagiwara Sama, because his heart has changed towards you.
Who acts: it, heart · What happens: be, fret, change · To what, where: yourself
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 (it, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 useless | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 useless | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 useless | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 useless | advmod |
| 5 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fret | mark |
| 7 | fret | fret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 useless | xcomp |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 fret | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Sama | case |
| 10 | Hagiwara | Hagiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sama | compound |
| 11 | Sama | Sama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fret | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 changed | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 changed | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changed | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 changed | aux |
| 17 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fret | advcl |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 changed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | certainly, useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fret | to-infinitive | yourself | about Hagiwara Sama | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present · perfect | Sama's heart | towards you | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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