In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 189

The player should be able to remember the different odors of the incenses tested; and he is expected to identify the guest-incense at the proper time merely by the unfamiliar quality of its fragrance.

Who acts: player, incenses, experiment · What happens: be, remember, test, expect, identify · To what, where: different odors, experiment, guest 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: who acts (player, incenses, experiment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 player	det
2	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 able	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remember	mark
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 odors	det
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 odors	amod
10	odors	odor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 incenses	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 incenses	det
13	incenses	incense	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tested	nsubj
14	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 odors	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 expected	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 expected	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 expected	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 expected	aux:pass
19	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 able	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 identify	mark
21	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 expected	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 incense	det
23	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 incense	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 guest	punct
25	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 identify	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 identify	obl
30	merely	merely	ADV	_	34 quality	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 quality	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 quality	det
33	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 quality	amod
34	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 identify	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fragrance	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fragrance	nmod:poss
37	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 quality	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	the player			able property	tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive	the player not said here	the different odors			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent odor=Theme
3	test	past	the incenses	the different odors not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odor=Theme
4	expect	present · passive		experiment			tree rules
5	identify not said to happen	to-infinitive	experiment not said here	the guest incense	time	by the unfamiliar quality of odor's fragrance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent incense=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 189

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 189