In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 133

This _Kai-gen_ is a kind of consecration, by virtue of which a newly-made image is supposed to become animated by the real presence of the divinity represented.

Who acts: This · What happens: be, make, suppose, become, animate, represent · To what, where: kind, made image, divinity

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), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 kind	nsubj
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 _	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Kai	punct
5	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 _	compound
6	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 consecration	case
11	consecration	consecration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 virtue	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 virtue	case
14	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 supposed	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 image	det
18	newly	newly	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 newly	punct
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 image	amod
21	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 supposed	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 supposed	aux:pass
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 virtue	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 become	mark
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 supposed	xcomp
26	animated	animate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 become	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 presence	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 presence	det
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 presence	amod
30	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 animated	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 divinity	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 divinity	det
33	divinity	divinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 presence	nmod
34	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 divinity	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a kind and virtue	of consecration; Kai gen _ nsubj; virtue conj	tree rules
2	make	participle			newly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	suppose	present · passive		a made image	of virtue	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	become	to-infinitive				tree rules
5	animate	participle			by the real presence of the divinity	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	represent	participle		the divinity not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 133

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 133