In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 24

In the same way a poet would be condemned for attempting any _completeness_ of utterance in a very short poem: his object should be only to stir imagination without satisfying it.

Who acts: object · What happens: condemn, attempt, be, satisfy · To what, where: poet, same way, _ completeness _, short poem, imagination

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 (object), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 condemned	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poet	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 condemned	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 condemned	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 condemned	aux:pass
9	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 attempting	mark
11	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 condemned	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 _	det
13	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 _	amod
14	completeness	completeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 _	compound
15	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attempting	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 utterance	case
17	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 _	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 poem	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 poem	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 short	advmod
21	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 poem	amod
22	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attempting	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 stir	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 object	nmod:poss
25	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stir	nsubj:outer
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stir	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 stir	cop
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 stir	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stir	mark
30	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 condemned	conj
31	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stir	obj
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 satisfying	mark
33	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stir	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 satisfying	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 condemned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	condemn	would · passive		a poet	the same way		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	attempt	gerund		any _ completeness _ of utterance	a short poem		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Eventuality
3	is	should	artist's object			imagination obj; stir property	tree rules
4	satisfy	gerund	artist's object not said here	imagination			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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 24

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 24