In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 98

The reason that I see the lotos—one memory of my first visit to a Buddhist sanctuary—is that there has come to me an odor of incense.

Who acts: I, reason, my · What happens: see, be, visit · To what, where: reason, me

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 (I, reason, my), 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 see	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reason	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lotos	det
7	lotos	loto	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 memory	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 memory	nummod
10	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lotos	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 visit	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 visit	nmod:poss
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 visit	amod
14	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 memory	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 sanctuary	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sanctuary	det
17	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sanctuary	amod
18	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visit	nmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 reason	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 come	expl
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 odor	det
28	odor	odor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 incense	case
30	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 odor	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	the reason			the lotos obj	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	the reason		me	there	a odor of incense obj; come property	tree rules
3	visit		my				to a Buddhist sanctuary	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 98