In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 51

Indeed their outline so much resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints.

Who acts: outline, I · What happens: resemble, not help, think, intend, indicate, design · To what, where: conventional flamelet design, Footprints, traditional luminosity, Buddhist decoration

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 (outline, I), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 resembles	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 outline	nmod:poss
3	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resembles	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 resembles	advmod
6	resembles	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 design	det
8	conventional	conventional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 design	amod
9	flamelet	flamelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 design	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 flamelet	punct
11	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resembles	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 decoration	case
13	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 decoration	amod
14	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 design	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 help	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 help	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 help	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 help	advmod
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 resembles	conj
21	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 help	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thinking	obj
23	originally	originally	ADV	_	24 intended	advmod
24	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thinking	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 indicate	mark
26	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 intended	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 luminosity	det
28	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 luminosity	amod
29	luminosity	luminosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 indicate	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 footprints	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 footprints	det
32	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 luminosity	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 resembles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resemble	present	Footprints's outline	the conventional flamelet design of Buddhist decoration	indeed property	tree rules
2	not help	can	I			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	I not said here	Footprints = footprint		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	intend	past	I not said here		originally property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	indicate not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the traditional luminosity of the footprints		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luminosity=Topic
6	design			Buddhist decoration		nom design «act 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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 51