In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 210

The proverb is best explained by the accompanying drawings, which will serve to give an idea of the commoner representations of both divinities.

Who acts: accompanying drawings · What happens: explain, accompany, serve, give, represent · To what, where: proverb, idea, divinities

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 (accompanying drawings), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 proverb	det
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explained	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 explained	aux:pass
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 explained	advmod
5	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 drawings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drawings	det
8	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 drawings	amod
9	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 explained	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 serve	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 serve	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 serve	aux
13	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drawings	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 serve	xcomp
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 representations	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 representations	det
20	commoner	common	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 representations	amod
21	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 idea	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 divinities	case
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 divinities	det
24	divinities	divinity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 representations	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · passive	the accompanying drawings	the proverb	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	accompany	gerund				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	serve	future	the accompanying drawings			tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	the accompanying drawings not said here	a idea of the commoner representations of both divinities		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
5	represent			both divinities		nom representation «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 210

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 210