In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 51

To summon the ghost of any dead person—or even that of a living person, according to some authorities,—it was only necessary to kindle some of the incense, and to pronounce certain words, while keeping the mind fixed upon the memory of that person.

Who acts: mind · What happens: summon, accord, be, kindle, pronounce, keep · To what, where: ghost, some, certain words, mind, dead person

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 (mind), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 summon	mark
2	summon	summon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 person	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 person	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ghost	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 person	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 person	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	16 person	advmod
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 person	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 person	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 authorities	punct
18	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 authorities	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 according	fixed
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 authorities	det
21	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 person	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 necessary	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 necessary	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 necessary	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 necessary	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 necessary	advmod
27	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 person	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kindle	mark
29	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 necessary	csubj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 kindle	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 incense	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 incense	det
33	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 some	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pronounce	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pronounce	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 pronounce	mark
37	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 summon	conj
38	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 words	amod
39	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pronounce	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 keeping	punct
41	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 keeping	mark
42	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 pronounce	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mind	det
44	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 keeping	obj
45	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 keeping	xcomp
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 memory	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 memory	det
48	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fixed	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 person	case
50	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 person	det
51	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 memory	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 summon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	summon	to-infinitive		the ghost of any dead person	of a living person that and some authorities	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			necessary property	tree rules
4	kindle	to-infinitive		some of the incense		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition some=Patient
5	pronounce	to-infinitive		certain words		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	keep	gerund		the mind		tree rules
7	fix	participle	the mind not said here		upon the memory of that person	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	ghost			any dead person		nom ghost «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, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 51

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 51