In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 85
It would be impossible, in a mere footnote, even to suggest the variety of Japanese religious objects to which the name is given.
What happens: be, suggest, give · To what, where: variety, name, Japanese religious objects
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impossible | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | cop |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 footnote | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 footnote | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 footnote | det |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 footnote | amod |
| 9 | footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impossible | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suggest | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 suggest | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 suggest | mark |
| 13 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 variety | det |
| 15 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suggest | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 objects | case |
| 17 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 objects | amod |
| 18 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 objects | amod |
| 19 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 variety | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 given | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 name | det |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux:pass |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 objects | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | a mere footnote conj; impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | to-infinitive | the variety of Japanese religious objects | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent variety=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | present · passive | the name | Japanese religious objects | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient |
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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