In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 23

[42] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede their spiritual progress—not only in this world, but through all their future states of being,—just as a _kubikasé_, or Japanese cangue, impedes the movements of the person upon whom it is placed.

Who acts: love, kubikasé, parents · What happens: be, impede, place, love, progress, move · To what, where: spiritual progress, movements, love, parents, person · 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 (love, kubikasé, parents), 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 42	punct
2	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 say	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 42	punct
4	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 42	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 love	det
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 impede	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 parents	case
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 love	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 child	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 child	nmod:poss
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 love	nmod
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 impede	aux
17	impede	impede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 progress	nmod:poss
19	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 progress	amod
20	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 impede	obj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 world	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 world	advmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 world	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 progress	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 states	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 states	cc
29	through	through	ADP	_	33 states	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 states	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 states	nmod:poss
32	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 states	amod
33	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 world	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	47 cangue	case
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 cangue	cop
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cangue	punct
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	47 cangue	punct
38	just	just	ADV	_	47 cangue	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 cangue	mark
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 cangue	det
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 kubikasé	punct
42	kubikasé	kubikasé	X	Foreign=Yes	47 cangue	nsubj
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 kubikasé	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cangue	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 cangue	cc
46	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 cangue	amod
47	cangue	cangue	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 states	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 impedes	punct
49	impedes	impede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 movements	det
51	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 impedes	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 person	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 person	det
54	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 movements	nmod
55	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 whom	case
56	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 person	nmod
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 placed	nsubj:pass
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 placed	aux:pass
59	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 whom	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present			42 obl; say property	tree rules
2	impede	may	the love of parents for parents's child	parents's spiritual progress and this world		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality
3	is	gerund	kubikasé		of a Japanese cangue	tree rules
4	impede	present		the movements of the person upon the movements of the person upon the movements		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer movement=Eventuality
5	place	present · passive		love		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
6	love			parents	for parents's child	nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient for=obl
7	progress		parents = parent			nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	move			the person upon the movements of the person upon the movements of the person		nom movement «act 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 23