In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 169

It is not likely, however, that they will again become really fashionable in the old sense,—partly because they represented rare forms of social refinement that never can be revived, and partly because of their costliness.

Who acts: fall, parties · What happens: not be, become, represent, not revive, form · To what, where: rare forms, social refinement

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 (fall, parties), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	4 likely	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 become	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 become	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 become	advmod
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	parataxis
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 fashionable	advmod
14	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 sense	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sense	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sense	amod
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fashionable	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 represented	punct
21	partly	partly	ADV	_	24 represented	advmod
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 represented	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 represented	nsubj
24	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	parataxis
25	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forms	amod
26	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 represented	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 refinement	case
28	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 refinement	amod
29	refinement	refinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forms	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 revived	nsubj:pass
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 revived	advmod
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 revived	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 revived	aux:pass
34	revived	revive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 refinement	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 costliness	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 costliness	cc
37	partly	partly	ADV	_	41 costliness	advmod
38	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	41 costliness	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	38 because	fixed
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 costliness	nmod:poss
41	costliness	costliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 represented	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	fall			however, likely property	tree rules
2	become	future	parties = party		again	fashionable property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	represent	past	parties = party	rare forms of social refinement		because parties's costliness; partly property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot form=Theme
4	not revive	can · passive		social refinement			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	form			social refinement			nom form «communication 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 169

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 169