In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 114
A proverb of like meaning is, _Bonnō no inu oëdomo sarazu:_ “Though driven away, the Dog of Lust cannot be kept from coming back again.”
Who acts: proverb · What happens: be, drive away, not keep, come back · To what, where: inu oëdomo, Dog
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 (proverb), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 proverb | det |
| 2 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oëdomo | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 meaning | case |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 meaning | case |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proverb | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 oëdomo | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bonnō | punct |
| 9 | Bonnō | Bonnō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 oëdomo | nsubj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 oëdomo | det |
| 11 | inu | inu | X | _ | 12 oëdomo | compound |
| 12 | oëdomo | oëdomo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | sarazu | sarazu | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 oëdomo | dep |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 driven | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 driven | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 driven | punct |
| 17 | Though | though | ADV | _ | 18 driven | advmod |
| 18 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 oëdomo | acl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 driven | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kept | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dog | det |
| 22 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Lust | case |
| 24 | Lust | Lust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dog | nmod |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 kept | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 kept | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 kept | aux:pass |
| 28 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 driven | conj |
| 29 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 30 coming | mark |
| 30 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 kept | advcl |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 coming | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 coming | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 driven | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 oëdomo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a proverb of meaning | no inu oëdomo | Bonnō nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drive away in a quote | participle | no inu oëdomo not said here | away, though property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not keep in a quote | can · passive | the Dog of Lust | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come back in a quote | gerund | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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