In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 67

The teaching of either proverb is excellently expressed by a third:—_Narau yori wa naréro:_ “Rather than study [an art], get accustomed to it,”—that is to say, “keep constantly in contact with it.”

Who acts: third, that · What happens: express, accustom, be, keep, teach · To what, where: teaching, proverb, contact · 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 (third, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teaching	det
2	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expressed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 proverb	case
4	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	5 proverb	det
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teaching	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 expressed	aux:pass
7	excellently	excellently	ADV	_	8 expressed	advmod
8	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 third	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 third	det
11	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expressed	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 expressed	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 wa	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Narau	punct
15	Narau	Narau	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wa	compound
16	yori	yori	X	_	17 wa	compound
17	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expressed	parataxis
18	naréro	naréro	X	Foreign=Yes	17 wa	flat:foreign
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 study	punct
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 study	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 study	punct
22	Rather	rath	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 study	amod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 Rather	fixed
24	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wa	appos
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 art	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 art	det
27	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 study	appos
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 art	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 accustomed	punct
30	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 accustomed	aux:pass
31	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 study	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 accustomed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 study	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 wa	punct
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 say	punct
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 say	nsubj:outer
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 say	cop
39	to	to	PART	_	40 say	mark
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expressed	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 keep	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 keep	punct
43	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 say	conj
44	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	43 keep	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 contact	case
46	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 keep	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 keep	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 expressed	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	express	present · passive	a third	the teaching of either proverb			Narau yori wa parataxis; excellently property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	accustom in a quote	infinitive · passive	a third not said here		proverb			tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	that				say property	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	infinitive	that not said here			contact	with proverb; constantly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in contact=Location
5	teach			either proverb				nom teaching «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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 67