In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 37

This proverb refers directly to the sutra-text,—_Shōja hitsumetsu é-sha-jori_,—” All that live must surely die; and all that meet will surely part.”

Who acts: proverb, Shōja, that · What happens: refer, live, die, meet · To what, where: part · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Shōja, that), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 proverb	det
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refers	nsubj
3	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 refers	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 text	det
7	sutra	sutra	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 text	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sutra	punct
9	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refers	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 refers	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 Shōja	punct
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Shōja	punct
13	Shōja	Shōja	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 die	nsubj:outer
14	hitsumetsu	hitsumetsu	X	Foreign=Yes	13 Shōja	dep
15	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Shōja	appos
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 é	punct
17	sha	sha	X	_	15 é	appos
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 jori	punct
19	jori	jori	X	Foreign=Yes	15 é	conj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Shōja	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 —	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 Shōja	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Shōja	punct
24	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 live	det:predet
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 live	nsubj
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Shōja	acl:relcl
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 die	aux
28	surely	surely	ADV	_	29 die	advmod
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refers	parataxis
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 meet	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 meet	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 meet	det:predet
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 meet	nsubj
34	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refers	parataxis
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 part	aux
36	surely	surely	ADV	_	37 part	advmod
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 meet	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refers	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 refers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refer	present	this proverb		to the sutra text; directly property	tree rules
2	live in a quote	present	Shōja			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die in a quote	must	Shōja		surely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	meet in a quote	present	that	part		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Co-Agent

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 37