In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 124

Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the religious uses and legends of incense,—a huge subject in itself.

Who acts: large part, religious · What happens: have, devote, use · To what, where: legends

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 (large part, religious), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 have	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 devoted	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 devoted	aux:pass
13	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 have	xcomp
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 uses	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 religious	det
16	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 uses	nsubj
17	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 devoted	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 legends	cc
19	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 uses	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 incense	case
21	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legends	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 subject	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 subject	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 subject	det
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 subject	amod
26	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legends	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 itself	case
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 subject	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	would	a large part of the work		then	tree rules
2	devote	to-infinitive · passive	a large part of the work not said here			vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»
3	use	present	the religious	legends of incense and a huge subject in INCENSE		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=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 124

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 124