In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 54

And for all life the end is the same: every creature, whether buried or burnt, is devoured,—and not only once or twice,—nor a hundred, nor a thousand, nor a myriad times!

Who acts: end · What happens: be, bury, burnt, devour · To what, where: creature

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 (end), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 same	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 life	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 life	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 creature	det
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 buried	punct
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 buried	mark
15	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 creature	acl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 burnt	cc
17	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 buried	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 devoured	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 devoured	aux:pass
20	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 creature	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 once	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 once	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 once	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 once	advmod
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 once	advmod
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 devoured	advmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 twice	cc
28	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 once	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hundred	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 hundred	punct
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 hundred	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hundred	det
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 creature	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thousand	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 thousand	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thousand	det
37	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 hundred	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 times	punct
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 times	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 times	det
41	myriad	myriad	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 times	compound
42	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 same	obl:unmarked
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the end		time	for all life; every creature parataxis; same property	tree rules
2	bury	participle		every creature not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	burnt	participle					tree rules
4	devour	present · passive	the end not said here			once property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»

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 54

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 54