In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 11

And when this plain fact is fully understood, the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets—notwithstanding their University training—to the ancient poetical methods, will be found reasonable enough.

Who acts: this, persistent attachment, poets · What happens: fact, understand, notwithstand, find, attach, train · To what, where: plain fact, University training, modern Japanese poets

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 (this, persistent attachment, poets), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 understood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 understood	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fact	nsubj
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fact	amod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 understood	aux:pass
7	fully	fully	ADV	_	8 understood	advmod
8	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 attachment	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 attachment	det
11	persistent	persistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 attachment	amod
12	attachment	attachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 poets	case
14	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poets	amod
15	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poets	amod
16	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 attachment	nmod
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 notwithstanding	punct
18	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 attachment	acl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 training	nmod:poss
20	University	University	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 training	compound
21	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 notwithstanding	obj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 methods	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 methods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 methods	det
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 methods	amod
26	poetical	poetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 methods	amod
27	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 notwithstanding	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 understood	parataxis
32	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	xcomp
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 found	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fact		this			tree rules
2	understand	present · passive		plain fact	the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets obl; fully property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	notwithstand	gerund	the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets not said here	poets's University training	to the ancient poetical methods	tree rules
4	find	future · passive			enough, reasonable property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
5	attach			modern Japanese poets		nom attachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	train		poets = poet			nom training «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 11

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 11