In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 106

In thousands and thousands of dwellings, you might observe that the sliding-screens, separating rooms or closing alcoves, have Chinese or Japanese decorative texts upon them;—and these texts are poems.

Who acts: you, texts · What happens: observe, separate, close, have, be · To what, where: thousands, rooms, alcoves, Chinese decorative texts, poems

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, texts), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 thousands	case
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 observe	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thousands	cc
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thousands	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dwellings	case
6	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thousands	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 observe	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 observe	aux
10	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 screens	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 screens	det
13	sliding	sliding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 screens	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sliding	punct
15	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 observe	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 separating	punct
17	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 observe	advcl
18	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 separating	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 closing	cc
20	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 separating	conj
21	alcoves	alcove	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 closing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 observe	parataxis
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 texts	amod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 Japanese	cc
26	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Chinese	conj
27	decorative	decorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 texts	amod
28	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 texts	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 observe	punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 poems	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 poems	cc
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 texts	det
35	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 poems	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 poems	cop
37	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 observe	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 observe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	might	you		thousands and thousands of dwellings	the sliding screens advcl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	separate	gerund	you not said here	rooms			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	close	gerund	you not said here	alcoves			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcove=Patient
4	have	present		Chinese decorative texts		upon alcoves = alcove	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Patient
5	is a	present	this texts	poems			tree rules

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 7, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 106