In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 89

In a silkworm-paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub….

Who acts: mundane instincts, us, seraph · What happens: lead, desire, free, satisfy, lose, sink back · To what, where: us, silkworm paradise, necessity, want, wings, last

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 (mundane instincts, us, seraph), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 paradise	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 paradise	det
3	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paradise	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 silkworm	punct
5	paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	obl
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 instincts	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 instincts	nmod:poss
9	mundane	mundane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 instincts	amod
10	instincts	instinct	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lead	nsubj
11	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lead	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 desire	mark
14	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lead	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 freed	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seraph	det
17	seraph	seraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 freed	nsubj
18	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	parataxis
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 necessity	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 necessity	det
21	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 freed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 toil	case
23	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 necessity	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 able	cc
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 freed	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 satisfy	mark
28	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 want	nmod:poss
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 want	det
31	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 satisfy	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 will	case
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 satisfy	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lose	punct
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lose	aux
36	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 freed	advcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wings	nmod:poss
38	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lose	obj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lose	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sink	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sink	cc
43	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	parataxis
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 sink	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 condition	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 condition	det
47	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sink	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 grub	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 grub	det
50	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 condition	nmod
51	….	..	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	present	our mundane instincts	us	a silkworm paradise		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result
2	desire	to-infinitive	us not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	free	past	the seraph		the necessity of toil		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	the seraph not said here	seraph's want			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus want=Experiencer
5	lose	would	the seraph not said here	seraph's wings	last		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality
6	sink back	infinitive				to the condition of a grub	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	want		seraph				nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	condition			a grub			nom condition «state 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 2, sentence 89

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 89