In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 6

The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern The Lights of the Dead S’rîpâda-tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tōkyō Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan Square and Triangle Jizō Emma Dai-ō

Who acts: Lantern Lights · What happens: trace, light · To what, where: Dentsu, Lantern Lights, Dead

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 (Lantern Lights), 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 Mountain	det
2	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lights	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Skulls	case
4	Skulls	Skulls	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mountain	nmod
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Incense	det
6	Magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Incense	amod
7	Incense	Incense	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Skulls	appos
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lantern	det
9	Peony	Peony	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Lantern	compound
10	Lantern	Lantern	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lights	compound
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lights	det
12	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Dead	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Dead	det
15	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lights	nmod
16	S’rîpâda	S'rîpâda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Dead	flat
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 S’rîpâda	punct
18	tracing	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Lights	acl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Dentsu	case
20	Dentsu	Dentsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tracing	obl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Dentsu	punct
22	In	in	ADP	_	18 tracing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Koishikawa	punct
24	Koishikawa	Koishikawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lights	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Tōkyō	punct
26	Tōkyō	Tōkyō	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	conj
27	Shō	Shō	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Tōkyō	flat
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Ekō	punct
29	Ekō	Ekō	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	conj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Hō	punct
31	Hō	Hō	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Kwan	punct
33	Kwan	Kwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	conj
34	Square	Square	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Kwan	flat
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Triangle	cc
36	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	conj
37	Jizō	Jizō	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Triangle	flat
38	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Koishikawa	list
39	Dai	Dai	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Emma	flat
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 ō	punct
41	ō	ō	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Emma	appos

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trace	gerund	the Lantern Lights the Mountain of Skulls of the Dead Koishikawa Emma and Tōkyō and Ekō and Hō and Kwan and Triangle not said here			Dentsu			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	light			the Dead					nom light «phenomenon 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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 6