In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 69

Indeed it will sometimes be found that settlements, within a few miles of each other, respectively manufacture nets or boats as dissimilar in type as might be the inventions of races living thousands of miles apart.

Who acts: races · What happens: find, be, live · To what, where: shrine, thousands

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (races), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj:pass
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 found	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	ADP	_	8 settlements	case
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 miles	punct
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 miles	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 miles	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 miles	amod
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 settlements	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 miles	nmod
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nets	punct
18	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	20 nets	advmod
19	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nets	compound
20	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 settlements	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 boats	cc
22	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 settlements	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 dissimilar	case
24	dissimilar	dissimilar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 type	case
26	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dissimilar	nmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 inventions	case
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 inventions	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 inventions	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inventions	det
31	inventions	invention	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 races	case
33	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 inventions	nmod
34	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 races	acl
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 living	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 miles	case
37	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thousands	nmod
38	apart	apart	ADV	_	34 living	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	future · passive		shrine	that settlements and a few miles of each and manufacture nets or boats; as dissimilar in type; indeed, sometimes property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as dissimilar=Attribute
2	is	might			as the inventions; of races	tree rules
3	live	gerund	races not said here	thousands of miles	apart property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thousand=Location

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, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 69

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Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 69