In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 37

Now once again, my dear young lady, let me beg you not to think any more about him!”

Who acts: dear young lady, me · What happens: let, beg, not think · To what, where: me, you, more · 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 (dear young lady, me), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 let	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 again	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Now	fixed
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lady	nmod:poss
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lady	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 beg	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 think	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beg	ccomp
17	any	any	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 think	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 more	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let	infinitive	my dear young lady	me		now; again	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	infinitive	me not said here		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive		more about heart			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 37