In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 93

[12] A special service,—accompanying offerings of food, etc., to those dead having no living relatives or friends to care for them,—is thus termed.

What happens: accompany, have, care, term, offer · To what, where: living relatives, those, 12, food

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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 12	punct
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 12	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 service	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 service	amod
6	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 12	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 offerings	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 accompanying	punct
9	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 offerings	amod
10	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 service	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offerings	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 etc.	punct
14	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	6 service	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 termed	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 those	case
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 termed	nsubj:pass
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 those	amod
19	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dead	advcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 relatives	det
21	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 relatives	compound
22	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 having	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 friends	cc
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 relatives	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 care	mark
26	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 having	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 care	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 those	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 termed	punct
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 termed	aux:pass
32	thus	thus	ADV	_	33 termed	advmod
33	termed	term	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 service	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 12	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accompany	gerund			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	no living relatives or friends		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Patient
3	care	to-infinitive		for friends = friend	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
4	term	present · passive	those	thus property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	offer		food		nom offering «communication 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 4, sentence 93

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 93