In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 20

But for certain classes of proverbs and proverbial phrases something can be done within even a few pages; and sayings related to Buddhism, either by allusion or derivation, form a class which seems to me particularly worthy of study.

Who acts: class · What happens: do, form, seem · To what, where: sayings, class, me

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 (class), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 done	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 classes	case
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 classes	amod
4	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 done	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 proverbs	case
6	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 classes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 phrases	cc
8	proverbial	proverbial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 phrases	amod
9	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 proverbs	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 proverbs	conj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 done	aux:pass
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	within	within	ADP	_	18 pages	case
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 pages	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pages	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pages	amod
18	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 done	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sayings	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sayings	cc
21	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 done	obl
22	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sayings	amod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Buddhism	case
24	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 related	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 allusion	punct
26	either	either	CCONJ	_	28 allusion	cc:preconj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 allusion	case
28	allusion	allusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sayings	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 derivation	cc
30	derivation	derivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 allusion	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 form	punct
32	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 done	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 class	det
34	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 form	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 seems	nsubj
36	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 class	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 seems	obl
39	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	40 worthy	advmod
40	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 seems	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 study	case
42	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 worthy	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	can · passive		sayings either allusion or derivation		for certain classes of proverbs something and proverbial phrases; within a few pages	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
2	form	infinitive		a class			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location class=Theme
3	seem	present	a class		me	worthy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 20