In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 69

As a matter of fact, the chemical action of the tobacco-smoke would define, upon a paper fitted into the mouth-piece of each cigarette, the photographic image of a dancing-girl.

Who acts: chemical action, fact, tobacco smoke · What happens: define, fit, matter, act, image · To what, where: paper, mouth piece, dancing girl

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 (chemical action, fact, tobacco smoke), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 matter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 define	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 matter	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 action	det
8	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 action	amod
9	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 define	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 smoke	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 smoke	det
12	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smoke	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 tobacco	punct
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 action	nmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 define	aux
16	define	define	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paper	punct
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 paper	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 paper	det
20	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 define	obj
21	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 paper	acl
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 piece	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 piece	det
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 mouth	punct
26	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fitted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cigarette	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 cigarette	det
29	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 image	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 image	det
32	photographic	photographic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 image	amod
33	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 girl	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 girl	det
36	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 girl	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 dancing	punct
38	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 image	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 define	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	define	would	the chemical action of the tobacco smoke	a paper		as a matter of fact	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent paper=Theme as matter=Attribute
2	fit	participle		a paper not said here	the mouth piece of each cigarette and the photographic image of a dancing girl		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into piece=Destination
3	matter		fact				nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
4	act		the tobacco smoke				nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent
5	image			a dancing girl			nom image «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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 69