In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 8
Well, let us see if there be no way to enter at the back of the house: come with me!”
Who acts: you, us, way · What happens: let, see, be, enter, come · To what, where: us, back
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, us, way), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 be | expl |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 be | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 enter | mark |
| 12 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enter | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | no way not said here | the back of the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | you not said here | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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