In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 148
[64] Monjū Bosatsu [_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva_] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one.
Who acts: Monjū figures, three heads · What happens: signify, be
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 (Monjū figures, three heads), 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 64 | punct |
| 2 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Monjū | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 64 | punct |
| 4 | Monjū | Monjū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 figures | compound |
| 5 | Bosatsu | Bosatsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Monjū | flat |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mañdjus’ri | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mañdjus’ri | punct |
| 8 | Mañdjus’ri | Mañdjus'ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Monjū | appos |
| 9 | Bodhisattva | Bodhisattva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mañdjus’ri | flat |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mañdjus’ri | punct |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mañdjus’ri | punct |
| 12 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 signifies | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Japanese | case |
| 14 | Japanese | Japanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 figures | nmod |
| 15 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Japanese | flat |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 divinity | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 divinity | det |
| 18 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 divinity | amod |
| 19 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Japanese | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wisdom | case |
| 21 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 divinity | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 figures | punct |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 signifies | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 proverb | det |
| 25 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 signifies | nsubj |
| 26 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 better | mark |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 heads | nummod |
| 29 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 better | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 better | cop |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 signifies | advcl |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 better | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | Monjū figures in Japanese as a special divinity of wisdom | the proverb nsubj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | present | three heads | than one; good property | 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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