In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 24

Parental affection, being the strongest of earthly attachments, is particularly apt to cause those whom it enslaves to commit wrongful acts in the hope of benefiting their offspring.—The term Sangai here signifies the three worlds of Desire, Form, and Formlessness,—all the states of existence below Nirvâna.

Who acts: Parental affection, affection, hope, term · What happens: be, cause, enslave, commit, benefit, signify · To what, where: those, wrongful acts, hope, offspring, three worlds

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 (Parental affection, affection, hope, term), 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	Parental	parental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 affection	amod
2	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strongest	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 strongest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 strongest	det
6	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 affection	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 attachments	case
8	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attachments	amod
9	attachments	attachment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strongest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 affection	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 apt	cop
12	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	13 apt	advmod
13	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cause	mark
15	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 apt	advcl
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 cause	obj
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 enslaves	obj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enslaves	nsubj
19	enslaves	enslave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 those	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 commit	mark
21	commit	commit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enslaves	xcomp
22	wrongful	wrongful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 acts	amod
23	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 commit	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hope	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hope	det
26	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 commit	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 benefiting	mark
28	benefiting	benefit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hope	acl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 offspring	nmod:poss
30	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 benefiting	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 apt	punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 signifies	punct
33	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 term	det
34	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 signifies	nsubj
35	Sangai	Sangai	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 term	appos
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 signifies	advmod
37	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 apt	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 worlds	det
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 worlds	nummod
40	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 signifies	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Desire	case
42	Desire	Desire	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 worlds	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Form	punct
44	Form	Form	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Desire	appos
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Formlessness	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Formlessness	cc
47	Formlessness	formlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 signifies	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 states	punct
49	—	-	PUNCT	_	52 states	punct
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 states	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 states	det
52	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 signifies	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 existence	case
54	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 states	nmod
55	below	below	ADP	_	56 Nirvâna	case
56	Nirvâna	Nirvâna	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 existence	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 apt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				of earthly attachments; strong property	tree rules
2	is	present	Parental affection			apt, particularly property	tree rules
3	cause	to-infinitive	Parental affection not said here	those			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition that=Patient
4	enslave	present	affection			whom obj	tree rules
5	commit	to-infinitive	affection not said here	wrongful acts	the hope		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent act=Theme in hope=Destination
6	benefit	gerund	the hope not said here	acts's offspring			vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer offspring=Beneficiary
7	signify	present	the term	the three worlds of Desire	here	Formlessness obl; all states of existence below Nirvâna obl	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot world=Theme

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 24