In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 126
[20] The popular saying, _Oni no Nembutsu_,—“a devil’s praying,”—has a similar meaning.
What happens: have · To what, where: similar meaning, 20
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 | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saying | det |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saying | amod |
| 6 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oni | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oni | punct |
| 9 | Oni | Oni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | appos |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 Nembutsu | det |
| 11 | Nembutsu | Nembutsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Oni | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oni | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 praying | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 praying | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 praying | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 devil | det |
| 17 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 praying | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 devil | case |
| 19 | praying | praying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 praying | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 praying | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 20 | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 meaning | det |
| 25 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meaning | amod |
| 26 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a similar meaning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient |
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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