In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 2
That is to say that we suffer only from the consequences of our own faults.—The demon-torturer in the Buddhist hell says to his victim:—“Blame not me!—I am only the creation of your own deeds and thoughts: you made me for this!”—Compare with No. 36.
Who acts: That, we, demon torturer, I, you, our · What happens: be, suffer, say, make, compare, fault · To what, where: consequences, victim, creation, me, No. · 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 (That, we, demon torturer, I), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 say | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 suffer | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 suffer | nsubj |
| 7 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 consequences | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 consequences | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 consequences | det |
| 11 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 suffer | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 faults | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 faults | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faults | amod |
| 15 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 consequences | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 torturer | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 torturer | det |
| 19 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 torturer | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 demon | punct |
| 21 | torturer | torturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hell | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hell | det |
| 24 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hell | compound |
| 25 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 torturer | nmod |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 victim | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 victim | nmod:poss |
| 29 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Blame | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Blame | punct |
| 33 | Blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | parataxis |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 me | advmod |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 Blame | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 Blame | punct |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 creation | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 creation | nsubj |
| 39 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 creation | cop |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 creation | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 creation | det |
| 42 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 deeds | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 deeds | amod |
| 46 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 creation | nmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 thoughts | cc |
| 48 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 deeds | conj |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 made | nsubj |
| 51 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 52 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 made | obj |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 this | case |
| 54 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 made | obl |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 57 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 Compare | punct |
| 58 | Compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | parataxis |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 No. | case |
| 60 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 58 Compare | obj |
| 61 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 60 No. | flat |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | That | Blame me parataxis; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | present | we | the consequences of our own faults | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the demon torturer in the Buddhist hell | torturer's victim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to victim=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | I | the creation | of your own deeds and thoughts | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | past | you | me | for this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent i=Product for this=Asset | |||
| 6 | compare | infinitive | No. | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=Patient | |||||
| 7 | fault | our | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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