In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 4
_ Be the teacher of your heart: do not allow your heart to become your teacher.
Who acts: you, heart · What happens: be, not allow, become · To what, where: teacher, heart
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 (you, heart), 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 | _ | 4 teacher | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teacher | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 allow | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 allow | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 allow | advmod |
| 11 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 teacher | parataxis |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allow | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allow | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teacher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | the teacher | of your heart | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not allow | infinitive · do-support | your heart | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer heart=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | your heart not said here | your teacher | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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