In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 120

Between were tombs leaning at all angles out of the perpendicular, tablets made illegible by scurf, empty pedestals, shattered water-tanks, and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands.

Who acts: tombs · What happens: be, lean, make, shatter · To what, where: angles, tablets

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tombs), 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	Between	between	ADP	_	3 tombs	case
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tombs	cop
3	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tombs	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 angles	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 angles	det
7	angles	angle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaning	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 perpendicular	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 perpendicular	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 perpendicular	det
11	perpendicular	perpendicular	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaning	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tablets	punct
13	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tombs	conj
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tablets	acl
15	illegible	illegible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 scurf	case
17	scurf	scurf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pedestals	punct
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pedestals	amod
20	pedestals	pedestal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tombs	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tanks	punct
22	shattered	shatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tanks	amod
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tanks	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
25	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tombs	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 statues	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 statues	cc
28	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tombs	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Buddhas	case
30	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 statues	nmod
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 heads	case
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 statues	nmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 hands	cc
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 heads	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tombs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				between tombs and tablets and empty pedestals and shattered water tanks and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands; tablets conj; empty pedestals conj; shattered water tanks conj; statues of Buddhas without heads or hands conj	tree rules
2	lean	gerund	tombs and tablets and empty pedestals and shattered water tanks and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands not said here		all angles	out the perpendicular	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at angle=Location
3	make	participle		tablets not said here		by scurf; illegible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	shatter	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 5, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 120