In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 48

This book also contains rough woodcuts of the footprints; and one of them I reproduce here for the purpose of calling attention to the curious form of the emblems upon the toes.

Who acts: book, one, purpose · What happens: contain, reproduce, call, form · To what, where: rough woodcuts, attention, curious form, emblems · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (book, one, purpose), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contains	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 contains	advmod
4	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woodcuts	amod
6	woodcuts	woodcut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 contains	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 footprints	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 footprints	det
9	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 woodcuts	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reproduce	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reproduce	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 reproduce	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 reproduce	nsubj
16	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 contains	conj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 reproduce	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 purpose	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 purpose	det
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reproduce	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 calling	mark
22	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 purpose	acl
23	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calling	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 form	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 form	det
26	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 form	amod
27	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calling	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 emblems	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 emblems	det
30	emblems	emblem	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 form	nmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 toes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 toes	det
33	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 emblems	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	present	this book	rough woodcuts of the footprints				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woodcut=Theme
2	reproduce	present	one of Footprints			here	for the purpose; I nsubj	vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	the purpose not said here	attention	the curious form of the emblems upon the toes			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to form=Recipient
4	form			the emblems upon the toes				nom form «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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 48