In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 176

_Jigō_ signifies ones own acts or thoughts; _jitoku_, to bring upon oneself,—nearly always in the sense of misfortune, when the word is used in the Buddhist way.

Who acts: Jigō, jitoku · What happens: signify, bring, use, sense · To what, where: ones, word, Buddhist way, misfortune

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 (Jigō, jitoku), 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 Jigō	punct
2	Jigō	Jigō	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 signifies	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Jigō	punct
4	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 signifies	obj
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 acts	amod
7	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ones	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 thoughts	cc
9	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 acts	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 jitoku	punct
12	jitoku	jitoku	X	Foreign=Yes	16 bring	nsubj
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 jitoku	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bring	mark
16	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 signifies	parataxis
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 oneself	case
18	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 bring	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sense	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 sense	punct
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 always	advmod
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 sense	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sense	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sense	det
25	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 misfortune	case
27	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sense	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 used	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 used	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 word	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 used	aux:pass
33	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sense	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 way	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 way	det
36	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 way	amod
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 signifies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	signify	present	Jigō	ones and own acts or thoughts			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
2	bring	to-infinitive	jitoku			upon oneself; the sense of misfortune conj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	use	present · passive		the word	the Buddhist way		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	sense			misfortune			nom sense «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 176

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 176