In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 205
His image in the temples is usually gilded from head to foot.—There are many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth,—such as _Jigoku no sata mo kané shidai:_ “Even the Judgments of Hell may be influenced by money.”
Who acts: many other ironical proverbs, money, Amitâbha · What happens: gild, be, influence, image · To what, where: image, head, Judgments, temples
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 (many other ironical proverbs, money, Amitâbha), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 image | nmod:poss |
| 2 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gilded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 temples | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 temples | det |
| 5 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 image | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gilded | aux:pass |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 gilded | advmod |
| 8 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gilded | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gilded | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gilded | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
| 15 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gilded | conj |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proverbs | amod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proverbs | amod |
| 19 | ironical | ironical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proverbs | amod |
| 20 | proverbs | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proverbs | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wealth | case |
| 25 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Jigoku | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 such | punct |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 31 Jigoku | case |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 such | fixed |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 such | punct |
| 31 | Jigoku | Jigoku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 proverbs | appos |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 kané | det |
| 33 | sata | sata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kané | compound |
| 34 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kané | compound |
| 35 | kané | kané | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Jigoku | appos |
| 36 | shidai | shidai | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 kané | flat:foreign |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 influenced | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 influenced | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 influenced | punct |
| 40 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 42 Judgments | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Judgments | det |
| 42 | Judgments | Judgment | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 influenced | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Hell | case |
| 44 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Judgments | nmod |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 influenced | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 influenced | aux:pass |
| 47 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 Jigoku | acl:relcl |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 money | case |
| 49 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 influenced | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 Jigoku | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gild | present · passive | Amitâbha's image in the temples | head | to foot; usually property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | does | present | many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | influence in a quote | may · passive | money | the Judgments of Hell | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | image | Amitâbha | the temples | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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