In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 17

I know that she loves me,—that she would throw away her poor life for me at an instant’s notice.

Who acts: I, incongruity, instant · What happens: know, love, throw away, notice · To what, where: me, poor life, notice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, incongruity, instant), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 loves	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loves	nsubj
5	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 loves	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 throw	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 throw	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 throw	aux
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 throw	advmod
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 throw	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 notice	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 instant	det
21	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 notice	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 instant	case
23	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	love	present	incongruity	me			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	throw away	would	incongruity	incongruity's poor life	a instant's notice	for me; away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent life=Theme at notice=Destination
4	notice		a instant				nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 17