In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 108

Strange facts crowd into memory as one contemplates those graven footprints,—footprints giant-seeming, yet less so than the human personality of which they remain the symbol.

Who acts: Strange facts, one, footprints · What happens: crowd, contemplate, grave, remain · To what, where: memory, graven footprints, symbol

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strange facts, one, footprints), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 facts	amod
2	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nsubj
3	crowd	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 memory	case
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crowd	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 contemplates	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 contemplates	nsubj
8	contemplates	contemplate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crowd	advcl
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 footprints	det
10	graven	grave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 footprints	amod
11	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contemplates	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 contemplates	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 footprints	punct
14	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 remain	nsubj
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seeming	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 giant	punct
17	seeming	seeming	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 footprints	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 less	punct
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 less	advmod
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 remain	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	29 remain	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	25 personality	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 personality	det
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 personality	amod
25	personality	personality	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remain	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 remain	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remain	nsubj
29	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crowd	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 symbol	det
31	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remain	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crowd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crowd	present	Strange facts		memory			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into memory=Destination
2	contemplate	present	one	that graven footprints				tree rules
3	grave	participle						tree rules
4	remain	present	footprints and giant seeming	the symbol		yet	than the human personality; which obl; Footprints = footprint nsubj; less property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 6, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 108