In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 87

She possesses a rude moral code—inculcating loyalty, submission, gentleness, gratitude, and maternal love; together with various minor rules of conduct;—and this simple code she has always observed.

Who acts: faith, conduct · What happens: possess, inculcate, observe, rule · To what, where: rude moral code, simple code

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, conduct), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 possesses	nsubj
2	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 code	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 code	amod
5	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 code	amod
6	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possesses	obj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 loyalty	punct
8	inculcating	inculcate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 loyalty	amod
9	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 code	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 submission	punct
11	submission	submission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gentleness	punct
13	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gratitude	punct
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 love	cc
18	maternal	maternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 love	amod
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 together	punct
21	together	together	ADV	_	2 possesses	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 rules	case
23	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rules	amod
24	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rules	amod
25	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 possesses	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 conduct	case
27	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rules	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 possesses	punct
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 observed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 observed	cc
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 code	det
32	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 code	amod
33	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 observed	nsubj:pass
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 observed	nsubj
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 observed	aux
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 observed	advmod
37	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 possesses	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 possesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	possess	present	faith	a rude moral code and inculcating loyalty and submission and gentleness and gratitude and maternal love	with various minor rules of conduct; together property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot code=Theme
2	inculcate	gerund				tree rules
3	observe	present · perfect · passive		this simple code	faith nsubj; always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	rule		conduct			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 87