In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 88

There is another proverb of the same kind,—_Ki ni yorité, hō wo toké:_ “According to the understanding [of the person to be taught], preach the Law.”

Who acts: proverb · What happens: be, accord, teach, preach · To what, where: Law

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 (proverb), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 proverb	det
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proverb	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 yorité	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 yorité	punct
12	Ki	ki	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ni	compound
13	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 yorité	compound
14	yorité	yorité	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 toké	punct
16	hō	hō	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 toké	compound
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 toké	aux
18	toké	toké	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 yorité	appos
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 toké	punct
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 preach	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 preach	punct
22	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 understanding	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 According	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 understanding	det
25	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 preach	obl
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	29 person	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 person	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 person	det
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 understanding	appos
30	to	to	PART	_	32 taught	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 taught	aux:pass
32	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 person	acl
33	]	]	PUNCT	_	29 person	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 understanding	punct
35	preach	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 yorité	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Law	det
37	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 preach	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 yorité	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 yorité	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	another proverb of the same kind		there	ni yorité parataxis	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accord in a quote	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	preach speech: other in a quote	infinitive	another proverb of the same kind not said here	the Law		accord the understanding	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 88