In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 26

Like the single stroke of a temple-bell, the perfect short poem should set murmuring and undulating, in the mind of the hearer, many a ghostly aftertone of long duration.

Who acts: perfect short poem, many · What happens: set, murmur, undulate, aftertone, stroke, mind · To what, where: mind, temple bell, hearer

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 (perfect short poem, many), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	4 stroke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stroke	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stroke	amod
4	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 bell	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bell	det
7	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bell	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 temple	punct
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stroke	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stroke	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 poem	det
12	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poem	amod
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poem	amod
14	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 set	aux
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 set	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 undulating	cc
19	undulating	undulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 murmuring	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mind	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mind	det
23	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 undulating	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hearer	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hearer	det
26	hearer	hearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mind	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 aftertone	punct
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 aftertone	nsubj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 aftertone	det
30	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 aftertone	amod
31	aftertone	aftertone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 murmuring	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 duration	case
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 duration	amod
34	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 aftertone	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	should	the perfect short poem			like the single stroke of a temple bell	tree rules
2	murmur speech: other	gerund	the perfect short poem not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	undulate	gerund	the perfect short poem not said here		the mind of the hearer		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location
4	aftertone		many			of long duration	tree rules
5	stroke			a temple bell			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient
6	mind			the hearer			nom mind «cognition 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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 26