In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 205
Such a device is justified especially by the famous parable of the third chapter of the _Saddharma Pundarîka_.
Who acts: famous parable · What happens: justify · To what, where: device
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 (famous parable), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 device | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 device | det |
| 3 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 justified | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 justified | aux:pass |
| 5 | justified | justify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 5 justified | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 parable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parable | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parable | amod |
| 10 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 justified | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chapter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chapter | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 chapter | amod |
| 14 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parable | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pundarîka | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pundarîka | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Saddharma | punct |
| 18 | Saddharma | Saddharma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pundarîka | compound |
| 19 | Pundarîka | Pundarîka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 chapter | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 justified | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 justified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | justify speech: other | present · passive | the famous parable of the third chapter of the Saddharma Pundarîka | such device | especially property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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