In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 10

Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure by recalling impressions of nature, by reviving happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage, by evoking the memory of beautiful days.

Who acts: cups · What happens: give, recall, revive, evoke, impress · To what, where: pleasure, impressions, happy incidents, memory, nature

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cups), 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	_	3 pictures	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pictures	det
3	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obl
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 screens	case
5	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pictures	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fans	cc
7	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 screens	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cups	cc
9	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 screens	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pictures	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 recalling	mark
15	recalling	recall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 give	advcl
16	impressions	impression	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 recalling	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 nature	case
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 impressions	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reviving	punct
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 reviving	mark
21	reviving	revive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 recalling	conj
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 incidents	amod
23	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reviving	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 travel	case
25	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 incidents	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 pilgrimage	cc
27	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 travel	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 evoking	punct
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 evoking	mark
30	evoking	evoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 reviving	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 memory	det
32	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 evoking	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 days	case
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 days	amod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 memory	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	cups = cup	pleasure	like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
2	recall	gerund	cups = cup not said here	impressions of nature		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Theme
3	revive	gerund	cups = cup not said here	happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent incident=Patient
4	evoke	gerund	cups = cup not said here	the memory of beautiful days		tree rules
5	impress			nature		nom impression «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, Shintō Revery, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 10