In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 115

Such a work would properly begin with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan.

Who acts: work · What happens: begin, account, use · To what, where: earliest knowledge, aromatics

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 work	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 work	det
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begin	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 begin	aux
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 begin	advmod
6	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 account	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 account	det
9	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 account	amod
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begin	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 knowledge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knowledge	det
13	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 knowledge	amod
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 use	cc
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knowledge	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 aromatics	case
18	aromatics	aromatic	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 use	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Japan	case
20	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 aromatics	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	would	such work		with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan; properly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with account=Subeventuality
2	account			the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan		nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	use			aromatics in Japan		nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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, Opening, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 115