In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 8

[39] “This world is but a travellers’ inn,” would be an almost equally correct translation.

Who acts: world · What happens: be · To what, where: inn, correct translation, 39

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 (world), 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	_	2 39	punct
2	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 39	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 inn	punct
5	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inn	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 inn	cop
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 inn	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 travellers	det
10	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 inn	nmod:poss
11	’	's	PART	_	10 travellers	case
12	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 39	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 39	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 39	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 translation	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 translation	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 translation	det
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 equally	advmod
19	equally	equally	ADV	_	20 correct	advmod
20	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 translation	amod
21	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 39	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 39	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	this world	a travellers's inn				a travellers nmod:poss	tree rules
2	is a	would		a correct translation					tree rules

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 8