In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 128
_ Making a Buddha without putting in the soul.
What happens: make, put · To what, where: Buddha, soul
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 Making | punct |
| 2 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Making | obj |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 putting | mark |
| 6 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Making | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 soul | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soul | det |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | a Buddha | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset buddha=Product | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the soul | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in soul=Destination |
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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