In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 38

Why, the simple fact that you long supposed O-Tsuyu to be dead, and repeated the _Nembutsu_ for her, and made offerings before her tablet, is itself the proof!…

Who acts: you · What happens: long, suppose, be, repeat, make · To what, where: simple fact, Nembutsu, offerings, proof

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 supposed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fact	det
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fact	amod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 supposed	nsubj:pass
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 long	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 long	nsubj
8	long	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	acl
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 proof	advcl
10	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	12 Tsuyu	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 O	punct
12	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 supposed	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 dead	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 supposed	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 repeated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 repeated	cc
18	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 supposed	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Nembutsu	det
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Nembutsu	punct
21	Nembutsu	Nembutsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 repeated	obj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Nembutsu	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 repeated	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 repeated	conj
28	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 made	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 tablet	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tablet	nmod:poss
31	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 supposed	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 proof	cop
34	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	36 proof	obl:unmarked
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 proof	det
36	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 proof	punct
38	…	.	PUNCT	_	36 proof	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	long	present	you	the simple fact not said here			tree rules
2	suppose	participle · passive		the simple fact		of Tsuyu	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive				dead property	tree rules
4	repeat	past		the Nembutsu		for Tsuyu	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Eventuality
5	make	past		offerings	before Tsuyu's tablet		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offering=Product
6	is a	present		the proof		fact obl:unmarked	tree rules

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 4, sentence 38

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 38