In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 120
_ Even a Buddha’s face,—only three times.
To what, where: face
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: 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 | _ | 6 face | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 face | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 face | det |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Buddha | case |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 face | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 times | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 face | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 face | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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