In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 55

Consider the ground upon which we move, the soil out of which we came;—think of the vanished billions that have risen from it and crumbled back into its latency to feed what becomes our food!

Who acts: you, we · What happens: consider, move, come, think, vanish, rise · To what, where: ground, soil, vanished billions, latency, food

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, we), 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	Consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Consider	obj
4	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 move	mark
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 move	nsubj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 move	nsubj
7	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Consider	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 move	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soil	det
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 move	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 which	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	obl
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 soil	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
18	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Consider	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 billions	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 billions	det
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 billions	amod
22	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 think	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 risen	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 risen	aux
25	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 billions	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 risen	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crumbled	cc
29	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 risen	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 crumbled	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 latency	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 latency	nmod:poss
33	latency	latency	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crumbled	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 feed	mark
35	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 crumbled	advcl
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 becomes	nsubj
37	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 feed	ccomp
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 food	nmod:poss
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 becomes	xcomp
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Consider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	imperative	you not said here	the ground			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ground=Attribute
2	move	present		the soil		which nsubj; we nsubj	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
3	come	past	we		the soil		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_Location
4	think speech: other	infinitive	you not said here			of the vanished billions	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vanish	participle					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rise	present · perfect · passive		the vanished billions	soil		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from it=Initial_State
7	crumble back	past				into soil's latency result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into latency=Result
8	feed	to-infinitive					tree rules
9	become	present		our food		what nsubj	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 55

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 55