In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 6

The first curious fact is that, from very ancient times, the writing of short poems has been practised in Japan even more as a moral duty than as a mere literary art.

Who acts: first curious fact · What happens: be, practise, write · To what, where: first curious fact, writing, Japan, short poems

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 (first curious fact), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fact	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 fact	amod
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fact	amod
4	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fact	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 practised	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 times	case
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 ancient	advmod
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 practised	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 writing	det
14	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 practised	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 poems	case
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poems	amod
17	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 writing	nmod
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 practised	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 practised	aux:pass
20	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fact	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Japan	case
22	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 practised	obl
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 practised	advmod
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 duty	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 duty	det
27	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 duty	amod
28	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 practised	obl
29	than	than	ADP	_	34 art	case
30	as	as	ADP	_	34 art	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 art	det
32	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 art	amod
33	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 art	amod
34	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 practised	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the first curious fact				tree rules
2	practise	present · perfect · passive	the first curious fact not said here	the writing of short poems	Japan	time	as a moral duty; than a mere literary art	tree rules
3	write			short poems				nom writing «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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 6