In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 58

From the evolutional point of view the question has interest; and its obvious answer was suggested to me by the history of those silkworms,—which have been domesticated for only a few thousand years.

Who acts: question, history · What happens: have, suggest, domesticate, point, answer · To what, where: interest, evolutional point, obvious answer, me, view

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 (question, history), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 point	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
3	evolutional	evolutional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 point	amod
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 view	case
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 point	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 suggested	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 suggested	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 answer	nmod:poss
14	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answer	amod
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suggested	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 suggested	aux:pass
17	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 has	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 suggested	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 history	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 history	det
22	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suggested	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 silkworms	case
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 silkworms	det
25	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 history	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 domesticated	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 domesticated	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 domesticated	nsubj:pass
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 domesticated	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 domesticated	aux:pass
31	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 suggested	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	37 years	case
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 thousand	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thousand	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thousand	amod
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 domesticated	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the question	interest		the evolutional point of view			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
2	suggest speech: suggest	past · passive	the history of that silkworms	question's obvious answer	me				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to i=Recipient
3	domesticate	present · perfect · passive					year	which nsubj:pass	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	point			view					nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	answer		question						nom answer «communication 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 58

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 58