In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 176

That variety of _kō-kwai_ called _Jitchū-kō_ (“ten-burning-incense”) is generally conceded to be the most amusing; and I shall try to tell you how it is played.

Who acts: I · What happens: call, concede, be, try, tell, play · To what, where: kwai _, variety, you, _ · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 variety	det
2	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conceded	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 _	case
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 _	punct
5	kō	kō	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kwai	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 kō	punct
7	kwai	kwai	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 _	compound
8	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 variety	nmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 _	acl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Jitchū	punct
11	Jitchū	Jitchū	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 kō	punct
13	kō	kō	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Jitchū	conj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Jitchū	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 burning	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ten	punct
19	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 incense	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
21	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 _	appos
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 conceded	aux:pass
25	generally	generally	ADV	_	26 conceded	advmod
26	conceded	concede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	31 amusing	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 amusing	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 amusing	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 amusing	advmod
31	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 conceded	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 try	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 try	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 try	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 try	aux
36	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 conceded	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 tell	mark
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 try	xcomp
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 played	advmod
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 played	nsubj:pass
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 played	aux:pass
43	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tell	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 conceded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		kwai _ not said here		Jitchū and kō xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	concede	present · passive		that variety of kwai _		generally property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				amusing property	tree rules
4	try	shall	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	play	present · passive		_			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 176

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 176