In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 48

“I have heard of the magical incense that summons the souls of the absent: Would I had some to burn, in the nights when I wait alone!”

Who acts: power, magical incense · What happens: hear, summon, have, burn, wait · To what, where: souls, some

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, magical incense), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 incense	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 incense	det
7	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 incense	amod
8	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 summons	nsubj
10	summons	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 incense	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 souls	det
12	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 summons	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 absent	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 absent	det
15	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 souls	acl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 had	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 burn	mark
22	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 some	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nights	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 nights	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nights	det
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 wait	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wait	nsubj
29	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 wait	advmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present · perfect	the power = power			of the magical incense	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of incense=Stimulus
2	summon in a quote	present	the magical incense	the souls			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Recipient
3	have in a quote	would	the power = power	some	night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	burn in a quote	to-infinitive	the power = power not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait in a quote	present	the power = power			alone property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 1, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 48