In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 162
But the use of incense in Japan is not confined to religious rites and ceremonies: indeed the costlier kinds of incense are manufactured chiefly for social entertainments.
What happens: not confine, manufacture, use · To what, where: use, religious rites, costlier kinds, incense
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 confined | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 use | det |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 incense | case |
| 5 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Japan | case |
| 7 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 incense | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 confined | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 confined | advmod |
| 10 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rites | case |
| 12 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rites | amod |
| 13 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 confined | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ceremonies | cc |
| 15 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rites | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 manufactured | punct |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 manufactured | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kinds | det |
| 19 | costlier | costly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 kinds | amod |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 manufactured | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 incense | case |
| 22 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kinds | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 manufactured | aux:pass |
| 24 | manufactured | manufacture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 confined | conj |
| 25 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 24 manufactured | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 entertainments | case |
| 27 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 entertainments | amod |
| 28 | entertainments | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 manufactured | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confine | present · passive | the use of incense in Japan | religious rites and ceremonies | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to rite=Destination | ||||
| 2 | manufacture | present · passive | the costlier kinds of incense | for social entertainments; chiefly, indeed property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for entertainment=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | use | incense 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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