In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 56

Whatever I attempt in this direction must of necessity be _ittakkiri;_—for the unspoken has to be expressed; and what the Japanese poet is able to say in seventeen or twenty-one syllables may need in English more than double that number of words.

Who acts: I, unspoken, syllables · What happens: attempt, be, have, express, say, need · To what, where: Whatever, direction, ittakkiri, more, seventeen, number · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, unspoken, syllables), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 attempt	obj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 attempt	nsubj
3	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 direction	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 direction	det
6	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attempt	obl
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ittakkiri	aux
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 necessity	case
9	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ittakkiri	obl
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ittakkiri	cop
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 ittakkiri	punct
12	ittakkiri	ittakkiri	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attempt	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 _	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 attempt	discourse
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 has	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 unspoken	det
18	unspoken	unspoken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attempt	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 expressed	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 expressed	aux:pass
22	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 has	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 able	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 able	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poet	det
27	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 poet	amod
28	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 able	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 attempt	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 say	mark
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 seventeen	case
34	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 need	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 one	cc
36	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 one	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 twenty	punct
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 seventeen	conj
39	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 need	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 need	aux
41	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 say	ccomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 English	case
43	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 need	obl
44	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 need	obj
45	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 double	mark
46	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 more	advcl
47	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 number	det
48	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 double	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 words	case
50	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 number	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attempt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attempt	present	I	Whatever	this direction		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
2	is a	must		ittakkiri		of necessity	tree rules
3	have	present	the unspoken				tree rules
4	express	to-infinitive · passive	the unspoken not said here				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»
5	is	present				what nsubj; the Japanese poet nsubj; able property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	need	may	syllables	more	seventeen	in English	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
8	double	infinitive	syllables not said here	that number of words			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=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 56

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 56