In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 7
You came here because you wanted a sensation; and she tried her very best to please you.
Who acts: You, friend · What happens: come, want, try, please · To what, where: sensation, best, you
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, friend), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 wanted | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sensation | det |
| 8 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wanted | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 best | nmod:poss |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 best | advmod |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 tried | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 please | mark |
| 17 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 please | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | You | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | you | a sensation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sensation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | friend | friend's best | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | friend not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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