In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 179

Each of the latter three supplies of incense—usually prepared in packages containing one hundred wafers is divided into four parts; and each part is put into a separate paper numbered or marked so as to indicate the quality.

Who acts: packages · What happens: contain, divide, put, number, mark, indicate · To what, where: hundred wafers, latter three supplies, four parts, part, separate paper, quality

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 (packages), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 supplies	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 supplies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 supplies	det
4	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 supplies	amod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 supplies	nummod
6	supplies	supplies	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 divided	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 incense	case
8	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supplies	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 prepared	advmod
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 divided	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 packages	case
13	packages	package	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 prepared	obl
14	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 packages	acl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wafers	nummod
17	wafers	wafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 containing	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 divided	aux:pass
19	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 parts	case
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 parts	nummod
22	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 divided	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 part	det
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 divided	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 paper	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 paper	det
31	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 paper	amod
32	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 paper	acl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 marked	cc
35	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 numbered	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	39 indicate	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 indicate	mark
38	to	to	PART	_	39 indicate	mark
39	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 quality	det
41	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 indicate	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	contain	gerund	packages not said here	hundred wafers		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wafer=Theme
2	divide	present · passive		each latter three supplies of incense	four parts	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	put	present · passive		each part	a separate paper	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	number	participle		a separate paper not said here		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	mark	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	indicate	to-infinitive		the quality		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=Topic

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 179

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 179