In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 46

They told me curious things about different breeds, and also about a wild variety of silkworm that cannot be domesticated:—it spins splendid silk before turning into a vigorous moth which can use its wings to some purpose.

Who acts: methods, race, vigorous moth · What happens: tell, not domesticate, spin, turn, use · To what, where: curious things, me, silkworm, splendid silk, vigorous moth, wings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (methods, race, vigorous moth), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 breeds	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breeds	amod
8	breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 variety	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 variety	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	15 variety	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 variety	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 variety	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 variety	amod
15	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 silkworm	case
17	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 variety	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 domesticated	obj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 domesticated	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 domesticated	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 domesticated	aux:pass
22	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 silkworm	acl:relcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 spins	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spins	nsubj
26	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 silk	amod
28	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spins	obj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 turning	mark
30	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 spins	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 moth	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 moth	det
33	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 moth	amod
34	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turning	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 use	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 use	aux
37	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 moth	acl:relcl
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wings	nmod:poss
39	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 use	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 purpose	case
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 purpose	det
42	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 use	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	methods = method	curious things	me		about different breeds; a wild variety of silkworm ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Topic
2	not domesticate	can · passive		silkworm				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: that=Patient
3	spin	present	race	splendid silk				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme silk=Result
4	turn	gerund	race not said here			a vigorous moth		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into moth=Trajectory
5	use	can	a vigorous moth	race's wings			to some purpose	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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 2, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 46