In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 23

Not only would he be false to the traditions of his art: he would necessarily defeat his own end thereby.

Who acts: artist · What happens: not be, defeat · To what, where: own end

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 (artist), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 false	advmod
2	only	only	ADV	_	6 false	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 false	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 false	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 false	cop
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 traditions	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 traditions	det
9	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 false	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 art	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 art	nmod:poss
12	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 traditions	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 defeat	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 defeat	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 defeat	aux
16	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	17 defeat	advmod
17	defeat	defeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 false	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 end	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 end	amod
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 defeat	obj
21	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	17 defeat	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 false	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	artist					to the traditions of artist's art; false property	tree rules
2	defeat	would	artist	artist's own end				necessarily, thereby property	tree rules

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 23