In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 50

Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that have feeling and desire.

Who acts: you, forms · What happens: be, eat, have · To what, where: forms, feeling

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, forms), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 vegetarian	cop
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vegetarian	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 will	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 vegetarian	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vegetarian	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vegetarian	det
8	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 none	punct
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 vegetarian	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 less	det
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 eat	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 eat	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	aux
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 none	acl:relcl
16	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eat	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 forms	acl:relcl
19	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 desire	cc
21	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feeling	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 vegetarian	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future · infinitive			none conj; vegetarian property	tree rules
2	eat	must	you	forms	less property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
3	have	present	forms	feeling and desire		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 50