In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 21

And the accomplishment of this purpose,—by poet or by picture-maker,—depends altogether upon capacity to _suggest_, and only to suggest.

Who acts: accomplishment, _ · What happens: depend, suggest, accomplish · To what, where: purpose

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 (accomplishment, _), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 depends	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 accomplishment	det
3	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 depends	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 purpose	det
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accomplishment	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poet	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 poet	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 poet	case
10	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accomplishment	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 maker	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 maker	case
13	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maker	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 picture	punct
15	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poet	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 depends	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 depends	punct
18	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	18 depends	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 capacity	case
21	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 depends	obl
22	to	to	SCONJ	_	24 suggest	mark
23	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 suggest	nsubj
24	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 depends	advcl
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 suggest	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 suggest	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 suggest	cc
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 suggest	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 suggest	mark
30	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 depends	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 depends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	depend	present	the accomplishment of this purpose and poet or picture maker		upon capacity; altogether property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	suggest speech: suggest	present	_			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	suggest speech: suggest	to-infinitive	the accomplishment of this purpose and poet or picture maker not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	accomplish			this purpose		nom accomplishment «act 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, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 21