In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 122
[19] This is a short popular form of the longer proverb, _Hotoké no kao mo sando nazuréba, hara wo tatsu:_ “Stroke even the face of a Buddha three times, and his anger will be roused.”
Who acts: This, Stroke · What happens: be, face, rouse, anger · To what, where: short popular form, anger, form tatsu
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 (This, Stroke), 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 19 | punct |
| 2 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 form | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 19 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 form | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 form | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 8 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tatsu | compound |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 proverb | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 proverb | det |
| 12 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 proverb | amod |
| 13 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hotoké | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hotoké | punct |
| 16 | Hotoké | Hotoké | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 proverb | appos |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 nazuréba | det |
| 18 | kao | kao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mo | compound |
| 19 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sando | compound |
| 20 | sando | sando | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nazuréba | compound |
| 21 | nazuréba | nazuréba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Hotoké | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hara | punct |
| 23 | hara | hara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proverb | conj |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 tatsu | aux |
| 25 | tatsu | tatsu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 face | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Stroke | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Stroke | punct |
| 29 | Stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 face | nsubj |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 face | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 face | det |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tatsu | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Buddha | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Buddha | det |
| 35 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 face | nmod |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 times | nummod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 face | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 roused | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 roused | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 anger | nmod:poss |
| 41 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 roused | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 roused | aux:pass |
| 44 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 tatsu | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 tatsu | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tatsu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a short popular form | of the longer proverb and hara; 19 discourse | tree rules | |||
| 2 | face in a quote | Stroke | time | of a Buddha | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rouse in a quote | future · passive | Stroke's anger | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | anger in a quote | Stroke | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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