In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 66

A proverb of kindred meaning is, _Kangaku-In no suzumé wa, Mōgyū wo sayézuru:_ “The sparrows of Kangaku-In [an ancient seat of learning] chirp the Mōgyū,”—a Chinese text formerly taught to young students.

Who acts: sparrows, Chinese text · What happens: be, chirp, teach · To what, where: proverb, Mōgyū, young students · 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 (sparrows, Chinese text), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 proverb	det
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 meaning	case
4	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meaning	amod
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proverb	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proverb	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sayézuru	punct
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 sayézuru	punct
9	Kangaku	Kangaku	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sayézuru	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 wa	punct
11	In	in	ADP	_	14 wa	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 wa	det
13	suzumé	suzumé	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wa	compound
14	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Kangaku	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mōgyū	punct
16	Mōgyū	Mōgyū	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kangaku	conj
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sayézuru	aux
18	sayézuru	sayézuru	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proverb	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 _	punct
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 proverb	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 chirp	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sparrows	det
23	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 chirp	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Kangaku	case
25	Kangaku	Kangaku	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sparrows	nmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 seat	punct
27	In	in	ADP	_	31 seat	case
28	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 seat	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 seat	det
30	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 seat	amod
31	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sparrows	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 learning	case
33	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seat	nmod
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 seat	punct
35	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 _	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Mōgyū	det
37	Mōgyū	Mōgyū	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 chirp	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 chirp	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 chirp	punct
40	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 taught	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 text	det
42	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 text	amod
43	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 taught	nsubj
44	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	45 taught	advmod
45	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 chirp	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 students	case
47	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 students	amod
48	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 taught	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proverb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a proverb and Kangaku sayézuru		of kindred meaning; Kangaku sayézuru conj	tree rules
2	chirp in a quote	present	the sparrows of Kangaku	the Mōgyū			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mōgyū=Theme
3	teach speech: other	past	a Chinese text		young students	formerly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to student=Recipient

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 66