In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 167

[67] _Bodai_ is the same word as the Sanscrit _Bodhi_, signifying the supreme enlightenment,—the knowledge that leads to Buddhahood; but it is often used by Japanese Buddhists in the sense of divine bliss, or the Buddha-state itself.

Who acts: same word, knowledge, Japanese Buddhists · What happens: be, signify, lead, use, sense · To what, where: same word, supreme enlightenment, Buddhahood, enlightenment, sense, 67

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 (same word, knowledge, Japanese Buddhists), 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 67	punct
2	67	67	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 67	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Bodai	punct
5	Bodai	Bodai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 67	nmod:unmarked
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 word	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 word	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 67	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 Bodhi	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bodhi	det
13	Sanscrit	Sanscrit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bodhi	compound
14	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bodhi	compound
15	Bodhi	Bodhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 word	nmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Bodhi	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 signifying	punct
18	signifying	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 word	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 enlightenment	det
20	supreme	supreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 enlightenment	amod
21	enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 signifying	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knowledge	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 knowledge	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knowledge	det
25	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enlightenment	appos
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 leads	nsubj
27	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 knowledge	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Buddhahood	case
29	Buddhahood	Buddhahood	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 leads	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 used	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 used	aux:pass
34	often	often	ADV	_	35 used	advmod
35	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 67	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 Buddhists	case
37	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Buddhists	amod
38	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 used	obl:agent
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 sense	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sense	det
41	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 used	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 bliss	case
43	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bliss	amod
44	bliss	bliss	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sense	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 state	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 state	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 state	det
48	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 state	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 Buddha	punct
50	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sense	appos
51	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	50 state	nmod:unmarked
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 67	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the same word			as the Sanscrit _ Bodhi	tree rules
2	signify	gerund	the same word not said here	the supreme enlightenment				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enlightenment=Theme
3	lead	present	the knowledge		Buddhahood			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to buddhahood=Patient
4	use	present · passive	Japanese Buddhists	enlightenment		the sense of divine bliss	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	sense			divine bliss				nom sense «cognition 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 167

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 167