In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 61

And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win the young man’s affection,—often repeating the invocation of the Nichiren sect: _Namu myō hō rengé kyō!

Who acts: image, Buddhas, Nichiren sect · What happens: pray, win, repeat, invoke · To what, where: Namu, affection, invocation

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 (image, Buddhas, Nichiren sect), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 pray	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pray	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pray	aux
4	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pray	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Buddhas	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Buddhas	det
10	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gods	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 win	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 win	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 win	aux
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Buddhas	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 affection	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 win	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 win	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 repeating	punct
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 repeating	advmod
23	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pray	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 invocation	det
25	invocation	invocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repeating	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 sect	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sect	det
28	Nichiren	Nichiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sect	compound
29	sect	sect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 invocation	nmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Namu	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 Namu	punct
32	Namu	Namu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pray	obl
33	myō	myō	X	Foreign=Yes	32 Namu	dep
34	hō	hō	X	Foreign=Yes	33 myō	flat:foreign
35	rengé	rengé	X	Foreign=Yes	33 myō	flat:foreign
36	kyō	kyō	X	Foreign=Yes	32 Namu	dep
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray	would	image	Namu	to the gods and the Buddhas	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	win	might	the Buddhas	the young man's affection	image nsubj	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Eventuality
3	repeat	gerund	image not said here	the invocation of the Nichiren sect	often property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invocation=Eventuality
4	invoke		the Nichiren sect			nom invocation «communication 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, Opening, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 61