In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 59
Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddha-nature within each of us.
Who acts: good thought, Buddha nature · What happens: contribute, evolve · To what, where: evolution
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 (good thought, Buddha nature), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contributes | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 act | cc |
| 5 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | conj |
| 6 | contributes | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 evolution | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evolution | det |
| 9 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contributes | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nature | det |
| 12 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nature | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Buddha | punct |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 evolution | nmod |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 nature | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 each | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contributes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contribute | present | every good thought and act | the evolution of the Buddha nature within each of us | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to evolution=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | evolve | the Buddha nature within each of us | nom evolution «process intransitive»: of=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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