In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 95

Among a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal fashion of emotional utterance, we should naturally suppose the common ideal of life to be a noble one.

Who acts: poetry, we · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: common ideal, noble one

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 (poetry, 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 people	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 suppose	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 people	acl:relcl
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 centuries	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 centuries	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 centuries	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 centuries	case
10	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whom	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fashion	det
12	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fashion	amod
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 centuries	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 utterance	case
15	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 utterance	amod
16	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fashion	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 suppose	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 suppose	aux
20	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	21 suppose	advmod
21	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ideal	det
23	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ideal	amod
24	ideal	ideal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 suppose	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ideal	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	31 one	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 one	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ideal	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	poetry		for centuries; a universal fashion of emotional utterance obj	tree rules
2	suppose	should	we	the common ideal of life	among a people; naturally property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ideal=Attribute
3	is a	to-infinitive	we not said here	a noble one		tree rules

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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 95