In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 70

Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude.

Who acts: power · What happens: make, claim, suppose, summon, sort · To what, where: visible forms, power, burning, viewless spirits, multitude, incense

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), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	3 power	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 power	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 claimed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 power	acl
6	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forms	amod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forms	det
8	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dead	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dead	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forms	nmod
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 claimed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 claimed	aux:pass
14	claimed	claim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 sort	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sort	nummod
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 supposed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 incense	case
19	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
20	only	only	ADV	_	19 incense	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burning	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 burning	det
23	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 supposed	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 kind	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 kind	det
26	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burning	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 incense	case
28	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kind	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 supposed	aux:pass
30	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 claimed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 summon	mark
32	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 supposed	xcomp
33	viewless	viewless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 spirits	amod
34	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 summon	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 multitude	case
36	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 summon	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 claimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	the power not said here	the visible forms of the dead			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset form=Product
2	claim speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the power			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	suppose	present · passive		the burning of any kind of incense		for one sort of incense	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	summon	to-infinitive		viewless spirits	multitude		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient
5	sort			incense			nom sort «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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 70