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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 58

But he gave no heed to their advice, and himself performed the rite,—kindling the incense, and keeping his mind fixed upon the memory of the Lady Li.

Who acts: book, mind · What happens: give, perform, kindle, keep, fix, mind · To what, where: heed, advice, rite, incense, mind

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 (book, 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

ccnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjconjdetobjpunctpunctadvcldetobjpunctccconjnmod:possobjxcompcasedetoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootButCCONJhePRONgaveVERBnoDETheedNOUNtoADPtheirPRONadviceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhimselfPRONperformedVERBtheDETriteNOUN,PUNCT—PUNCTkindlingVERBtheDETincenseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJkeepingVERBhisPRONmindNOUNfixedVERBuponADPtheDETmemoryNOUNofADPtheDETLadyPROPNLiPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 gavecc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gavensubj
3gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nonoDETPronType=Neg5 heeddet
5heedheedNOUNNumber=Sing3 gaveobj
6totoADP_8 advicecase
7theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 advicenmod:poss
8adviceadviceNOUNNumber=Sing3 gaveobl
9,,PUNCT_12 performedpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 performedcc
11himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes12 performednsubj
12performedperformVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 gaveconj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 ritedet
14riteriteNOUNNumber=Sing12 performedobj
15,,PUNCT_17 kindlingpunct
16—-PUNCT_17 kindlingpunct
17kindlingkindleVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 performedadvcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 incensedet
19incenseincenseNOUNNumber=Sing17 kindlingobj
20,,PUNCT_22 keepingpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 keepingcc
22keepingkeepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 kindlingconj
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 mindnmod:poss
24mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing22 keepingobj
25fixedfixVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 keepingxcomp
26uponuponADP_28 memorycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 memorydet
28memorymemoryNOUNNumber=Sing25 fixedobl
29ofofADP_32 Licase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Lidet
31LadyLadyPROPNNumber=Sing32 Licompound
32LiLiPROPNNumber=Sing28 memorynmod
33..PUNCT_3 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastbookno heedcounsellors's advicevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to advice=Recipient
2performpastbookthe ritevn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Theme
3kindlegerundbook not said herethe incensevn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition incense=Patient
4keepgerundbook not said herebook's mindtree rules
5fixparticiplebook's mind not said hereupon the memory of the Lady Livn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6mindbooknom mind «cognition 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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