In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 116
_ The karma of the parents is visited upon the child.
What happens: visit · To what, where: karma
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: 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 | _ | 8 visited | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 karma | det |
| 3 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 parents | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parents | det |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 karma | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 visited | aux:pass |
| 8 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visited | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present · passive | the karma of the parents | upon the child | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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