In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 10
_Kari_ signifies temporary, transient, fleeting,—as in the common Buddhist saying, _Kono yo kari no yo:_ “This world is a fleeting world.”
Who acts: Kari _, world · What happens: signify, say, be · To what, where: common Buddhist, fleeting world · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari _, world), 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 | _ | 4 signifies | punct |
| 2 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | compound |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signifies | nsubj |
| 4 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 signifies | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 transient | punct |
| 7 | transient | transient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 temporary | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fleeting | punct |
| 9 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 temporary | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 temporary | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 saying | mark |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Buddhist | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Buddhist | det |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Buddhist | amod |
| 16 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obl |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 signifies | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kari | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 kari | punct |
| 20 | Kono | Kono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kari | compound |
| 21 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 22 kari | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kari | kari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 yo | det |
| 24 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kari | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 world | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 world | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 world | punct |
| 28 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 world | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 world | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 32 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 world | amod |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 world | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | Kari _ | temporary property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Kari _ not said here | the common Buddhist | yo's Kono kari no yo ccomp | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in buddhist=Manner | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this world | a fleeting world | tree rules |
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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