In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 88

[13] The common people often use the curious expression “_gosho-daiji_” as an equivalent for “extremely important.”

Who acts: 13 common people · What happens: use · To what, where: curious expression

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 (13 common people), 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	_	2 13	punct
2	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 13	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	nsubj
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 expression	det
10	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 expression	amod
11	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 daiji	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 gosho	punct
14	gosho	gosho	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daiji	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 gosho	punct
16	daiji	daiji	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 expression	appos
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 daiji	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 daiji	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 equivalent	mark
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 equivalent	det
21	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 use	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 important	case
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 important	punct
24	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	25 important	advmod
25	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 equivalent	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the 13 common people	the curious expression				often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 88