In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 134

Great quantities of it are burned by pilgrims in the bronze censers set before the entrances of famous temples; and in front of roadside images you may often see bundles of it.

Who acts: pilgrims, bronze censers, you · What happens: burn, set, see · To what, where: Great quantities, entrances, bundles, front

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 (pilgrims, bronze censers, you), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quantities	amod
2	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burned	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 quantities	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burned	aux:pass
6	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 pilgrims	case
8	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burned	obl
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 censers	det
11	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 censers	compound
12	censers	censer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burned	advcl
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 entrances	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 entrances	det
16	entrances	entrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 temples	case
18	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 temples	amod
19	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 entrances	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 images	case
25	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 images	compound
26	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 front	nmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 burned	parataxis
31	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 see	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bundles	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	present · passive	pilgrims	Great quantities of kō			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	set	present	the bronze censers		the entrances of famous temples		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before entrance=Destination
3	see	may	you	bundles of censer	front of roadside images	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus

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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The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 134