In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 28

On the sole-part of each footprint there is the impression of a wheel; and upon each of the prints of the ten toes there is a flower-like design, which sometimes radiates light.

Who acts: impression, like design · What happens: be, radiate, impress, print · To what, where: sole part, ten toes, light, wheel

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 (impression, like design), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 part	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
3	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sole	punct
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 footprint	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 footprint	det
8	footprint	footprint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 impression	det
12	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wheel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 impression	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 each	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 each	cc
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 is	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prints	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prints	det
22	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 each	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 toes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 toes	det
25	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 toes	nummod
26	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 prints	nmod
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 toes	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 design	det
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 like	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 flower	punct
32	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 design	amod
33	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 is	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 radiates	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 radiates	nsubj
36	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 radiates	advmod
37	radiates	radiate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 design	acl:relcl
38	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 radiates	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	the impression of a wheel		the sole part of each footprint; there	upon each of the prints of the ten toes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on part=Location
2	be	present	a like design	the ten toes not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot toe=Theme
3	radiate	present	a like design	light		sometimes property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source
4	impress			a wheel			nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	print			the ten toes			nom print «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 6, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 28