In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 170

_ Even the head of an _iwashi_, by virtue of faith, [will have power to save, or heal].

Who acts: head · What happens: have, save, heal · To what, where: power

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 (head), 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	_	4 head	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	4 head	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 iwashi	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 iwashi	det
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 iwashi	punct
8	iwashi	iwashi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 virtue	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 virtue	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 virtue	case
12	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 faith	case
14	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 virtue	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 save	mark
21	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 power	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heal	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 heal	cc
24	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 have	parataxis
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	24 heal	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	the head of a iwashi	power	virtue of faith nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	save	to-infinitive	the head of a iwashi not said here	power not said here		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	heal	infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 170

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 170