In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 126

We picked our way between the rain-pools and between the green ridges of young potatoes,—whose roots were doubtless feeding on the sub-stance of many another O-Tsuyu and O-Yoné;—and we reached at last two lichen-eaten tombs of which the inscriptions seemed almost obliterated.

Who acts: We, roots, inscriptions · What happens: pick, be, feed, reach, eat, seem · To what, where: way, last two eaten tombs

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 (We, roots, inscriptions), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	9 pools	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pools	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pools	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 rain	punct
9	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ridges	cc
11	between	between	ADP	_	14 ridges	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ridges	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ridges	amod
14	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pools	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 potatoes	case
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 potatoes	amod
17	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ridges	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 doubtless	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 doubtless	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 roots	nmod:poss
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 doubtless	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 doubtless	cop
23	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 picked	parataxis
24	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 doubtless	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 sub-stance	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sub-stance	det
27	sub-stance	sub-stance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feeding	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	37 Yoné	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Yoné	amod
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 Yoné	det
31	O	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Yoné	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Tsuyu	punct
33	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Yoné	compound
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 O	cc
35	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Tsuyu	conj
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Yoné	punct
37	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sub-stance	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct
39	—	-	PUNCT	_	42 reached	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 reached	cc
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 reached	nsubj
42	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
43	at	at	ADP	_	49 tombs	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 tombs	amod
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 tombs	nummod
46	lichen	lichen	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 eaten	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 lichen	punct
48	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 tombs	amod
49	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 reached	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 which	case
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 seemed	obl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 inscriptions	det
53	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 seemed	nsubj
54	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 tombs	acl:relcl
55	almost	almost	ADV	_	56 obliterated	advmod
56	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 seemed	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick	past	We	our way		between the rain pools and the green ridges of young potatoes	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	is	past	roots			doubtless property	tree rules
3	feed	gerund	roots not said here			on the sub-stance of another many O Tsuyu Yoné	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sub-stance=Patient
4	reach	past	we		last two eaten tombs		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	participle				lichen compound	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	past	the inscriptions			of last two eaten tombs	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	obliterate	participle	the inscriptions not said here			almost property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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 5, sentence 126

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 126