In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 43
“Oh! why will you ask me to do these things?” responded O-Yoné.
Who acts: you, O · What happens: ask, do, respond · To what, where: O, things · 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 (you, O), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 ask | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ask | advmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 15 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 responded | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Yoné | punct |
| 18 | Yoné | Yoné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 O | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | you | O and Yoné = o | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | respond speech: other | participle | O and Yoné | vn respond-113 «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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