In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 107

In houses of the better class there are usually a number of _gaku_, or suspended tablets to be seen,—each bearing, for all design, a beautifully written verse.

What happens: be, suspend, see, write · To what, where: number, houses

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: 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 houses	case
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 are	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 number	cop
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 number	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 gaku	case
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
14	gaku	gaku	X	Foreign=Yes	11 number	appos
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 gaku	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tablets	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 tablets	cc
18	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tablets	amod
19	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gaku	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 seen	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gaku	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 number	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 bearing	det
26	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 number	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 design	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 design	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 design	det
30	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bearing	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 verse	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 verse	det
33	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	34 written	advmod
34	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 verse	amod
35	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bearing	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 number	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a number	houses	each bearing and all design and a written verse parataxis; usually property	tree rules
2	suspend	participle				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive · passive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	write	participle			beautifully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 7, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 107