In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 150

—“_Let my body remain pure like a censer!—let my thought be ever as a fire of wisdom, purely consuming the incense of sîla and of dhyâna,_[3] _that so may I do homage to all the Buddhas in the Ten Directions of the Past, the Present, and the Future!

Who acts: you, body, Incense · What happens: let, remain, think, be, consume, do · To what, where: body, that, incense, homage

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, body, Incense), 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	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 Let	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Let	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Let	punct
4	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Let	obj
7	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Let	xcomp
8	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remain	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 censer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 censer	det
11	censer	censer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pure	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Let	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 Let	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fire	nmod:poss
16	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fire	amod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 fire	cop
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 fire	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wisdom	case
23	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fire	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 consuming	punct
25	purely	purely	ADV	_	26 consuming	advmod
26	consuming	consume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 let	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 incense	det
28	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consuming	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 sîla	case
30	sîla	sîla	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 incense	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dhyâna	cc
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 dhyâna	case
33	dhyâna	dhyâna	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sîla	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 _	punct
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
36	[	[	PUNCT	_	37 3	punct
37	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 _	appos
38	]	]	PUNCT	_	37 3	punct
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 3	punct
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 let	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	44 do	advmod
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 do	aux
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 do	nsubj
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
45	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 do	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 Buddhas	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 Buddhas	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Buddhas	det
49	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 do	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 Directions	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Directions	det
52	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 Directions	nummod
53	Directions	Direction	PROPN	Number=Plur	49 Buddhas	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Past	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Past	det
56	Past	Past	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Directions	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 Present	punct
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Present	det
59	Present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Directions	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 Future	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 Future	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 Future	det
63	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Let	obl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my body		the Future obl	tree rules
2	remain in a quote	infinitive	my body not said here			pure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	that		3 appos	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	participle					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	infinitive			ever	as my thought fire; of wisdom; my nmod:poss	tree rules
6	consume in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the incense of sîla and dhyâna		purely property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=Asset
7	do in a quote	may	Incense	homage		to all Buddhas in the Ten Directions of the Past and the Present	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality

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, Opening, sentence 150