In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 74
_ In even a cat the Buddha-nature exists.
Who acts: _ · What happens: exist
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 exists | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 cat | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nature | det |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nature | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Buddha | punct |
| 9 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exists | nsubj |
| 10 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | _ in a cat | the Buddha nature nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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