In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 39
“Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from thinking about him!
Who acts: Dear Yone, Yoné · What happens: happen, not keep, think · To what, where: Yoné
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 Yone, Yoné), 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 | _ | 7 happen | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Yone | amod |
| 3 | Yone | Yone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 keep | advmod |
| 12 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happen | conj |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 thinking | case |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thinking | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | may | Dear Yone | whatever nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not keep in a quote | can | Yoné | Yoné | possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | Yoné not said here | about Yone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic |
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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