In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 130
[21] That is to say, making an image of the Buddha without giving it a soul.
Who acts: 21 · What happens: be, make, give, image · To what, where: image, Buddha
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 (21), 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 21 | punct |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 say | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 say | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Buddha | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Buddha | det |
| 14 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 image | nmod |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 giving | mark |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 say | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 giving | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 soul | det |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 21 That | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | 21 That not said here | a image of the Buddha | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset image=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | 21 That not said here | image | a soul obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient soul=Theme | |||
| 4 | image | the Buddha | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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