In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 209

[74] Meaning that one most reveres the _hotoké_—the spirits of the dead regarded as Buddhas—in one’s own household-shrine.

Who acts: one · What happens: mean, revere, regard · To what, where: hotoké, spirits, 74

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 (one), 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 74	punct
2	74	74	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 74	punct
4	Meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 74	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 reveres	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 reveres	nsubj
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 reveres	amod
8	reveres	revere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Meaning	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hotoké	det
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 hotoké	punct
11	hotoké	hotoké	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reveres	obj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 reveres	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 spirits	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spirits	det
15	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reveres	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dead	det
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spirits	nmod
19	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spirits	acl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 Buddhas	case
21	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 regarded	obl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 shrine	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	29 shrine	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 shrine	nsubj
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 one	case
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shrine	amod
27	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrine	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 household	punct
29	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Buddhas	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 74	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	revere	present	one	the hotoké	the spirits of the dead parataxis	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hotoké=Stimulus
3	regard	participle		the spirits of the dead not said here	as Buddhas and own household shrine	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as buddha=Value

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 209

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 209