In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 225

[77] A very common saying,—often uttered as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation, upon sudden misfortune, upon sudden death, etc. It is used especially in relation to _shinjū_, or lovers’ suicide.

Who acts: sudden death · What happens: utter, use · To what, where: etc., relation, common saying

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 (sudden death), 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 77	punct
2	77	77	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 saying	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 77	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 saying	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 common	advmod
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saying	amod
7	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 uttered	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 uttered	advmod
11	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saying	ccomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 comment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 comment	det
14	comment	comment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uttered	obl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 unhappiness	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 unhappiness	det
17	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comment	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 separation	case
19	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unhappiness	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 misfortune	punct
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 misfortune	case
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 misfortune	amod
23	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uttered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 death	punct
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 death	case
26	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 death	amod
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uttered	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 used	punct
29	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	32 used	nsubj:pass
30	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 used	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 used	aux:pass
32	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 death	acl:relcl
33	especially	especially	ADV	_	35 relation	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 relation	case
35	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 used	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 shinjū	case
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 to	punct
38	shinjū	shinjū	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 used	obl
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 uttered	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 suicide	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 suicide	cc
42	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 suicide	nmod:poss
43	’	's	PART	_	42 lovers	case
44	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	participle						as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation; upon sudden misfortune; sudden death parataxis; often property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	use	present · passive	sudden death not said here	etc.		relation		to shinjū	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 225

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In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 225