In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 4
Dear Yone, please find some means of taking me to him….
Who acts: Dear Yone, some · What happens: find, mean, take · To what, where: me, Yone · 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 Yone, some), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Yone | amod |
| 2 | Yone | yone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yone | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 find | discourse |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 taking | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taking | obl |
| 13 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | infinitive | Dear Yone | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | some | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | me | Yone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to he=Destination |
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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