In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 42
_ Even a common man by obtaining knowledge becomes a Buddha.
Who acts: common man · What happens: obtain, become · To what, where: knowledge
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 (common man), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 man | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 obtaining | mark |
| 7 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 man | acl |
| 8 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtaining | obj |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Buddha | det |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | gerund | a common man not said here | knowledge | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | present | a common man | a Buddha xcomp | 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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