In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 148

While an unfortunate child is spoken of as “a child of _ingwa_,” a very lucky person is called a “_kwahō-mono_,”—that is to say, an instance, or example of _kwahō_.

Who acts: that · What happens: speak, call, be, exemplify · To what, where: unfortunate child, lucky person, kwahō · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 spoken	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux:pass
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 called	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 child	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 child	case
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ingwa	case
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
14	ingwa	ingwa	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 child	nmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 person	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 lucky	advmod
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 person	amod
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mono	det
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 mono	punct
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 kwahō	punct
27	kwahō	kwahō	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mono	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 kwahō	punct
29	mono	mono	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 mono	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 say	nsubj:outer
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 say	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 called	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 instance	punct
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 instance	det
40	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 example	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 example	cc
43	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 kwahō	case
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 of	punct
46	kwahō	kwahō	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 example	nmod
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · passive		a unfortunate child	of a child of ingwa	tree rules
2	call speech: assert	present · passive		a lucky person	a kwahō mono xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	present	that		example of kwahō obl; a instance obj; say property	tree rules
4	exemplify			kwahō		nom example «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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 148

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 148