In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 57

The explanation of the Seven Appearances which is given by the _Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan_ cannot be called satisfactory; but it is not without interest in relation to Japanese popular Buddhism.

Who acts: _, explanation, Seven Appearances · What happens: give, not call, not be, explain · To what, where: explanation, Japanese popular Buddhism, relation · 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 (_, explanation, Seven Appearances), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 explanation	det
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Appearances	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Appearances	det
5	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Appearances	nummod
6	Appearances	Appearance	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 explanation	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 given	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 explanation	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	20 _	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 _	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Shō	punct
13	Shō	Shō	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 _	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Ekō	punct
15	Ekō	Ekō	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Shō	conj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Hō	punct
17	Hō	Hō	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Shō	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Kwan	punct
19	Kwan	Kwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Shō	conj
20	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 given	obl
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 called	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 called	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 interest	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 interest	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 interest	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 interest	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 interest	advmod
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 interest	case
32	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 relation	case
34	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 interest	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 Buddhism	case
36	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Buddhism	amod
37	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Buddhism	amod
38	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 interest	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	the _ Shō and Ekō and Hō and Kwan	the explanation of the Seven Appearances				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	not call	can · passive		the explanation of the Seven Appearances			satisfactory property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	not is	present	explanation		Japanese popular Buddhism	relation	without interest	tree rules
4	explain		the Seven Appearances					nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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 6, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 57