In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 73

Probably the girl has been in love with you from a time long preceding your present life,—from a time of not less than three or four past existences; and it would seem that, although necessarily changing her form and condition at each succeeding birth, she has not been able to cease from following after you.

Who acts: girl, it · What happens: be, precede, seem, change, succeed, not be · To what, where: love, present life, that, form, succeeding birth

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 (girl, it), 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	Probably	probably	ADV	_	7 love	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 love	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 love	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 love	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 love	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 love	nmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
14	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 long	advcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
16	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 life	amod
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preceding	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	31 existences	case
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 less	advmod
25	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	27 three	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 less	fixed
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 existences	nummod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 four	cc
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 three	conj
30	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 existences	amod
31	existences	existence	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 time	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 seem	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 seem	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 seem	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 seem	aux
36	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 love	parataxis
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 seem	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 changing	punct
39	although	although	SCONJ	_	41 changing	mark
40	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	41 changing	advmod
41	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 seem	advcl
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 form	nmod:poss
43	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 changing	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 condition	cc
45	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 form	conj
46	at	at	ADP	_	49 birth	case
47	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	49 birth	det
48	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 birth	amod
49	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 changing	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 able	punct
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 able	nsubj
52	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 able	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 able	advmod
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 able	cop
55	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 seem	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 cease	mark
57	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 able	xcomp
58	from	from	SCONJ	_	59 following	mark
59	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 cease	advcl
60	after	after	ADP	_	61 you	case
61	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 following	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	the girl		love	time	with you; probably property	tree rules
2	precede	gerund	the girl not said here	your present life				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Co-Theme
3	seem	would	it	that				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute
4	change	gerund		girl's form and condition	each succeeding birth		necessarily property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
5	succeed	gerund						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	present · perfect	girl				able property	tree rules
7	cease	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	follow	gerund	girl not said here			after you		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after you=Theme
9	form		girl					nom form «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 4, sentence 73

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 73