In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 72

They are called _Jiki-kō-ki_, or “incense-eating goblins;” and they belong to the fourteenth of the thirty-six classes of Gaki (_prêtas_) recognized by Japanese Buddhism.

Who acts: powers · What happens: call, eat, belong, recognize · To what, where: powers, prêtas · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (powers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 ki	punct
5	Jiki	Jiki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ki	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Jiki	punct
7	kō	kō	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ki	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 kō	punct
9	ki	ki	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 ki	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goblins	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 goblins	cc
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 goblins	punct
14	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 incense	punct
16	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 goblins	amod
17	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 belong	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 belong	nsubj
22	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 fourteenth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fourteenth	det
25	fourteenth	fourteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belong	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 classes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 classes	det
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 six	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 thirty	punct
30	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 classes	nummod
31	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fourteenth	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Gaki	case
33	Gaki	Gaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 classes	nmod
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 prêtas	punct
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 prêtas	punct
36	prêtas	prêta	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 classes	conj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 prêtas	punct
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 prêtas	punct
39	recognized	recognize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 prêtas	acl
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 Buddhism	case
41	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Buddhism	amod
42	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 recognized	obl:agent
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · passive		powers = power	Jiki kō ki xcomp; eating goblins conj	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	eat in a quote	gerund			incense compound	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	belong	present	powers = power		to the fourteenth of the six classes of Gaki and prêtas	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	recognize	participle		prêtas not said here	Japanese Buddhism obl:agent	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 72