In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 92

[14] Said of those who ignorantly criticise the doctrines of Buddhism.—The proverb alludes to a celebrated fable in the _Avadânas_, about a number of blind men who tried to decide the form of an elephant by feeling the animal.

Who acts: proverb, blind men · What happens: criticise, allude, celebrate, try, decide, feel · To what, where: doctrines, form, animal, 14, Buddhism, elephant

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, blind men), 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 14	punct
2	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 14	punct
4	Said	Said	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 14	nmod:unmarked
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 14	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 criticise	nsubj
8	ignorantly	ignorantly	ADV	_	9 criticise	advmod
9	criticise	criticise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 those	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctrines	det
11	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 criticise	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Buddhism	case
13	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 doctrines	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 14	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 alludes	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 proverb	det
17	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 alludes	nsubj
18	alludes	allude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 14	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 fable	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fable	det
21	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fable	amod
22	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 alludes	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 Avadânas	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Avadânas	det
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Avadânas	punct
26	Avadânas	Avadânas	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fable	nmod
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Avadânas	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 number	punct
29	about	about	ADV	_	31 number	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Avadânas	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 men	case
33	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 number	nmod
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tried	nsubj
36	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 men	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 decide	mark
38	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tried	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 form	det
40	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 decide	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 elephant	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 elephant	det
43	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 form	nmod
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 feeling	mark
45	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 decide	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 animal	det
47	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feeling	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 14	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	criticise	present		the doctrines of Buddhism	who nsubj; ignorantly property	tree rules
2	allude	present	the proverb		to a celebrated fable in the Avadânas and a number of blind men	tree rules
3	celebrate	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	try	past	blind men			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	decide not said to happen	to-infinitive	blind men not said here	the form of a elephant		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent form=Topic
6	feel	gerund	blind men not said here	the animal		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
8	indoctrinate			Buddhism		nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	form			a elephant		nom form «communication transitive»: of=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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 92