In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 14

Even in this less romantic era of Meiji, young people resolved upon suicide are wont to compose some verses before quitting the world.

Who acts: young people, romantic era · What happens: resolve, be, compose, quit · To what, where: Meiji, verses, world

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people, romantic era), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	6 era	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 era	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 era	det
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 romantic	advmod
5	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 era	amod
6	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wont	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Meiji	case
8	Meiji	Meiji	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 era	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 resolved	punct
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 resolved	nsubj
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Meiji	acl:relcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 suicide	case
14	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resolved	obl
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wont	cop
16	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 compose	mark
18	compose	compose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wont	xcomp
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 verses	det
20	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 compose	obj
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 quitting	mark
22	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 compose	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 quitting	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wont	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	young people	Meiji not said here	upon suicide	tree rules
2	is	present	this romantic era of Meiji		wont property	tree rules
3	compose	to-infinitive	this romantic era of Meiji not said here	some verses		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result
4	quit	gerund	this romantic era of Meiji not said here	the world		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source

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, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 14