In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 108

But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil,—for example upon braziers, iron kettles, vases, wooden trays, lacquer ware, porcelains, chopsticks of the finer sort,—even toothpicks!

Who acts: example · What happens: find, lacquer · To what, where: poems, ware

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 (example), 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	_	5 found	cc
2	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux:pass
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lacquer	advcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 kind	case
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 utensil	case
11	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 utensil	amod
12	utensil	utensil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 example	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 example	case
16	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lacquer	nsubj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 braziers	case
18	braziers	brazier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 example	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kettles	punct
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kettles	compound
21	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 braziers	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 vases	punct
23	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 braziers	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trays	punct
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trays	amod
26	trays	tray	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 braziers	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lacquer	punct
28	lacquer	lacquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	ware	ware	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lacquer	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 porcelains	punct
31	porcelains	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ware	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chopsticks	punct
33	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ware	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 sort	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sort	det
36	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 sort	amod
37	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chopsticks	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 toothpicks	punct
39	—	-	PUNCT	_	41 toothpicks	punct
40	even	even	ADV	_	41 toothpicks	advmod
41	toothpicks	toothpick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ware	conj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 lacquer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can · passive		poems				upon any kind of domestic utensil	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	lacquer	infinitive	example upon braziers and iron kettles and vases and wooden trays	ware and porcelains and chopsticks of the finer sort and toothpicks					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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 7, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 108