In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 87

[54] The teaching of Buddhist doctrine should always be adapted to the intelligence of the person to be instructed.

What happens: adapt, instruct, teach · To what, where: teaching, intelligence, Buddhist doctrine

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: 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 54	punct
2	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 adapted	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 54	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teaching	det
5	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adapted	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 doctrine	case
7	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 doctrine	amod
8	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teaching	nmod
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 adapted	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 adapted	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 adapted	aux:pass
12	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 intelligence	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 intelligence	det
15	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adapted	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 person	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 intelligence	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	21 instructed	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 instructed	aux:pass
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 person	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 adapted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	adapt	should · passive	the teaching of Buddhist doctrine	to the intelligence of the person goal; 54 obl; always property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to intelligence=Goal
2	instruct speech: other	to-infinitive · passive			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»
3	teach		Buddhist doctrine		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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 87