In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 74
Could she speak, my dog, I think that she might ask questions which no philosopher would be able to answer.
Who acts: faith, I, questions · What happens: speak, think, ask, be, answer · To what, where: dog, questions · 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 (faith, I, questions), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 ask | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | aux |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | ccomp |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 able | nsubj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 philosopher | det |
| 17 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 able | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 questions | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 answer | mark |
| 22 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | could | faith | my dog | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | might | faith | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | would | questions | no philosopher nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | questions not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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