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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 3

At first I tried to frighten her out of the habit; but finding that she refused to take me seriously, I concluded to let her howl.

Who acts: I, she, her · What happens: try, frighten, find, refuse, not take, conclude · To what, where: her, habit, me

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, she, her), 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

caseoblnsubjmarkxcompobjcasecasedetoblpunctccadvclmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompobjadvmodpunctnsubjconjmarkccompobjxcomppunctrootAtADPfirstADVIPRONtriedVERBtoPARTfrightenVERBherPRONoutADPofADPtheDEThabitNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJfindingVERBthatSCONJshePRONrefusedVERBtoPARTtakeVERBmePRONseriouslyADV,PUNCTIPRONconcludedVERBtoPARTletVERBherPRONhowlVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 firstcase
2firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 triedobl
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 triednsubj
4triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoPART_6 frightenmark
6frightenfrightenVERBVerbForm=Inf4 triedxcomp
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 frightenobj
8outoutADP_11 habitcase
9ofofADP_11 habitcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 habitdet
11habithabitNOUNNumber=Sing6 frightenobl
12;;PUNCT_14 findingpunct
13butbutCCONJ_14 findingcc
14findingfindVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 triedadvcl
15thatthatSCONJ_17 refusedmark
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 refusednsubj
17refusedrefuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 findingadvcl
18totoPART_19 takemark
19taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf17 refusedxcomp
20meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 takeobj
21seriouslyseriouslyADV_19 takeadvmod
22,,PUNCT_24 concludedpunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 concludednsubj
24concludedconcludeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 triedconj
25totoPART_26 letmark
26letletVERBVerbForm=Inf24 concludedccomp
27hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 letobj
28howlhowlVERBVerbForm=Inf26 letxcomp
29..PUNCT_4 triedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1trypastIvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2frighten not said to happento-infinitiveI not said hereher = shethe habitvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3findgerundI not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4refusepastshevn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5not taketo-infinitiveshe not said heremeseriously propertyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
6concludepastIvn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7letto-infinitiveI not said hereher = shetree rules
8howlinfinitiveher = she not said herevn animal_sounds-38 «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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