In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 45

But since you will persist in this whim of yours, in spite of all that I can say, I suppose that I must try to find the money somehow, and to bring it here to-morrow night….”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: persist, say, suppose, try, find, bring · To what, where: whim, money · 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, I), 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 persist	cc
2	since	since	SCONJ	_	5 persist	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 persist	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 persist	aux
5	persist	persist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 whim	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 whim	det
8	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 persist	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 yours	case
10	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 whim	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 persist	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 that	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 that	det:predet
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 say	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 spite	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 suppose	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 suppose	nsubj
22	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 persist	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 try	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 try	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 try	aux
26	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 suppose	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 try	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 money	det
30	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 bring	mark
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 suppose	ccomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 bring	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 night	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 to	punct
40	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 night	compound
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obl
42	….	..	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 persist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persist	future	you		this whim of yours		in spite	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in whim=Location
2	say speech: assert	can	I				of spite	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	suppose	present	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try	must	I					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the money			somehow property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic
6	bring	to-infinitive		money	here	night		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 45

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 45