In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 80

Smelling thousands of things which we cannot smell at all, she must comprehend them in a way of which we can form no idea.

Who acts: faith, we · What happens: smell, not smell, comprehend, form · To what, where: thousands, things, all, way, idea

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 (faith, 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	Smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 comprehend	advcl
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smelling	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thousands	nmod
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 smell	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 smell	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 smell	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 smell	advmod
9	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 things	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 smell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Smelling	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comprehend	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 comprehend	aux
15	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comprehend	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comprehend	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 form	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 form	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 form	aux
24	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 way	acl:relcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 idea	det
26	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 form	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 comprehend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund	faith not said here	thousands of things			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus
2	not smell	can	we	things	all		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme at all=Location
3	comprehend	must	faith	thousands = thousand	a way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	form	can	we	no idea		of a way	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 80