In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 76

All life that feels and thinks has been, and can continue to be, only as the product of struggle and pain,—only as the outcome of endless battle with the Powers of the Universe.

Who acts: life · What happens: feel, think, have, continue, be

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 (life), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 life	det
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 feels	nsubj
4	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 life	acl:relcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thinks	cc
6	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feels	conj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 has	aux
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 continue	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 continue	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 continue	aux
12	continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 has	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 be	mark
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continue	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 product	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 product	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 product	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 product	det
19	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continue	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 struggle	case
21	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 product	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pain	cc
23	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struggle	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 outcome	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 outcome	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 outcome	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 outcome	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 outcome	det
29	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 product	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 battle	case
31	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 battle	amod
32	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 outcome	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 Powers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Powers	det
35	Powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 battle	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Universe	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Universe	det
38	Universe	Universe	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Powers	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	present	all life		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	present	all life not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	participle	all life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	continue	can		as the product of struggle and pain and the outcome of endless battle with the Powers of the Universe	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	be	to-infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 76