In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 36

In a strictly Buddhist sense it would mean, “Do not be too eager for the reward of good deeds.”

Who acts: sense · What happens: mean, not be, reward · To what, where: good deeds · 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 (sense), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 sense	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sense	det
3	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	4 Buddhist	advmod
4	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sense	amod
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mean	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eager	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 eager	punct
11	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 eager	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 eager	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 eager	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 eager	advmod
15	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mean	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 reward	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reward	det
18	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eager	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 deeds	case
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deeds	amod
21	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reward	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	would	sense		in a Buddhist sense	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in sense=Attribute
2	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support			for the reward of good deeds; eager property	tree rules
3	reward in a quote			good deeds		nom reward «event 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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 36