In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 200

He takes the six tablets out of the box, and wraps them up in the paper which contained the incense guessed about.

Who acts: set, paper, incense · What happens: take, wrap up, contain, guess · To what, where: six tablets, box, tablets, paper

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, paper, incense), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tablets	det
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tablets	nummod
5	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 box	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wraps	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wraps	cc
12	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wraps	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 wraps	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 paper	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paper	det
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wraps	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paper	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 incense	det
21	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guessed	nsubj
22	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 contained	ccomp
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 guessed	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	set	the six tablets	the box		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme out box=Initial_Location
2	wrap up	present	set not said here	tablets = tablet	the paper		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in paper=Destination
3	contain	past	the paper				tree rules
4	guess	past	the incense			about property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 200

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 200