In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 101

[16] This proverb is most often used in reference to death,—signifying that all forms go back into the nothingness out of which they spring.

Who acts: forms, Proverbs · What happens: use, signify, go back, spring · To what, where: 16, reference, nothingness

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forms, Proverbs), 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	_	2 16	punct
2	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 used	nsubj:pass
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 16	punct
4	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 proverb	det
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 used	aux:pass
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 used	advmod
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 reference	case
11	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 signifying	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 signifying	punct
16	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 used	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 forms	det
19	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 signifying	ccomp
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 nothingness	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nothingness	det
24	nothingness	nothingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 which	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 spring	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spring	nsubj
29	spring	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 nothingness	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		16	reference	to death; this proverb nsubj:pass; often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	signify	gerund					tree rules
3	go back	present	all forms		the nothingness		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	spring	present	Proverbs = proverb		the nothingness		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out which=Trajectory

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, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 101