In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 83

Certainly she knows a great deal more about the earth on which we tread than would be good for us to know; and probably, if capable of speech, she could tell us the strangest stories of air and water.

Who acts: faith, we, us · What happens: know, tread, be, tell · To what, where: great deal, earth, strangest stories, us · 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, we, us), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 knows	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 knows	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tread	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tread	nsubj
14	tread	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 earth	acl:relcl
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 good	mark
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 good	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tread	advcl
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 know	mark
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 good	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 capable	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 capable	cc
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	28 capable	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 probably	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 capable	mark
28	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knows	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 speech	case
30	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 capable	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tell	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 capable	conj
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stories	det
37	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 stories	amod
38	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tell	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 air	case
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stories	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 water	cc
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 air	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	faith	a great deal			certainly property	tree rules
2	tread	present	we			the earth		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory
3	is	would	we not said here				good property	tree rules
4	know	to-infinitive	us					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	could	faith	the strangest stories of air and water	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient story=Topic

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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 83