In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 31
The proverb signifies that it is better to correct the heart,—to conquer all vain regrets and desires,—than to become a religious.
Who acts: proverb · What happens: signify, be, correct, conquer, become · To what, where: heart, vain regrets
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 (proverb), 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 | 3 signifies | nsubj |
| 3 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 better | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 better | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 signifies | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 correct | mark |
| 9 | correct | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 better | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 correct | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 conquer | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 conquer | mark |
| 15 | conquer | conquer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 signifies | parataxis |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 regrets | det |
| 17 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 regrets | amod |
| 18 | regrets | regret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 conquer | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 desires | cc |
| 20 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 regrets | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 conquer | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 religious | det |
| 27 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | the proverb | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the proverb not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | correct speech: disagree | to-infinitive | the heart | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 4 | conquer | to-infinitive | all vain regrets and desires | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regret=Patient | |||||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | religious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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