In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 88

But I think that the inscriptions upon any of these _Butsu-soku-séki_ will be found of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at an explanation of the emblems.

Who acts: I, emblems · What happens: think, find, explain · To what, where: inscriptions · 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 (I, emblems), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 think	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 found	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inscriptions	det
6	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 found	nsubj:pass
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 any	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 inscriptions	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 these	case
10	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 any	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 _	punct
12	Butsu	Butsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 _	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Butsu	punct
14	soku	soku	X	Foreign=Yes	12 Butsu	dep
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Butsu	punct
16	séki	séki	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 _	compound
17	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	nsubj:pass
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	aux:pass
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 think	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 significance	case
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 significance	amod
23	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
24	than	than	ADP	_	28 attempts	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 attempts	det
26	above	above	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 attempts	amod
27	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 attempts	amod
28	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 significance	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 explanation	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 explanation	det
31	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attempts	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 emblems	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 emblems	det
34	emblems	emblem	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 explanation	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	future · passive		the inscriptions upon any of these	of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at a explanation of the emblems; Butsu séki _ nsubj:pass	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	explain		the emblems			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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 88