In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 149

A saying of like meaning is,_ Hiza to mo dankō:_ “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it.

Who acts: saying, that · What happens: be, consult, despise, say · To what, where: Hiza, advice, meaning · 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 (saying, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saying	det
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hiza	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 meaning	case
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 meaning	case
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Hiza	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Hiza	punct
9	Hiza	Hiza	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 say	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 dankō	case
11	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dankō	compound
12	dankō	dankō	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hiza	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Consult	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 Consult	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Consult	punct
16	Consult	consult	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Hiza	parataxis
17	even	even	ADV	_	21 knee	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 knee	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knee	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knee	amod
21	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Consult	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Consult	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Consult	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 say	nsubj:outer
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Despise	punct
29	Despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 advice	det
31	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Despise	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 matter	punct
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 matter	det
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 advice	appos
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 humble	advmod
36	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 source	amod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 source	det
38	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 matter	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 source	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a saying of meaning	Hiza	to mo dankō	tree rules
2	consult in a quote	infinitive			with your own knee	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with knee=Co-Agent
3	is	present	that		say property	tree rules
4	despise	infinitive	that not said here	no advice		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus
5	say			meaning		nom saying «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 2, sentence 149

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 149