In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 198

If, for example, he thinks the incense to be “guest-incense,” he drops into the box that one of his tablets marked with the ideograph meaning “guest;” or if he believes that he has inhaled the perfume of No. 2, he puts into the box a tablet numbered “2.”

Who acts: set, ideograph, tablet · What happens: think, be, drop, mark, mean, believe · To what, where: incense, guest incense, box, guest, perfume, 2 · 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 (set, ideograph, tablet), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 thinks	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 example	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 example	case
4	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 example	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 drops	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 incense	det
9	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	15 incense	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 incense	cop
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 incense	punct
13	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 incense	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 guest	punct
15	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 incense	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drops	nsubj
19	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 box	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 box	det
22	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drops	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 one	mark
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 drops	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tablets	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tablets	nmod:poss
27	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 one	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 ideograph	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ideograph	det
31	ideograph	ideograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 marked	obl
32	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 ideograph	acl
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 guest	punct
34	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meaning	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 puts	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 believes	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 believes	nsubj
40	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 puts	advcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 inhaled	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 inhaled	nsubj
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 inhaled	aux
44	inhaled	inhale	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 believes	ccomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 perfume	det
46	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 inhaled	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 No.	case
48	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	46 perfume	nmod
49	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 No.	flat
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 believes	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 puts	nsubj
52	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	conj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 box	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 box	det
55	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 puts	obl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 tablet	det
57	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 box	appos
58	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 tablet	acl
59	“	"	PUNCT	_	60 2	punct
60	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	58 numbered	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 drops	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 drops	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	set	the incense		for example	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incense=Theme
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		guest incense			tree rules
3	drop	present	set		the box	one of set's tablets conj	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into box=Trajectory
4	mark	participle				with the ideograph	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ideograph=Theme
5	mean	gerund	the ideograph not said here	guest			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Topic
6	believe a condition, not said to happen	present	set				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	inhale	present · perfect	set	the perfume of No.			vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme
8	put	present	set		the box		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
9	number	participle	a tablet not said here	2			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme
10	perfume			No.			nom perfume «cognition 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 198