In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 11

The true teaching is that the result of every selfish wish is in the nature of a penalty, and that what the wish creates must prove—to higher knowledge at least—the folly of wishing.”

Who acts: true teaching, wish, folly · What happens: be, create, prove, wish, result · To what, where: nature, higher knowledge, selfish wish

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true teaching, wish, folly), 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	3 teaching	det
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teaching	amod
3	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nature	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nature	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 nature	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 result	det
7	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nature	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 wish	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 wish	det
10	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wish	amod
11	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 result	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nature	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 nature	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nature	det
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 penalty	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 penalty	det
18	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nature	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 prove	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 prove	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 creates	mark
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 creates	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wish	det
24	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 creates	nsubj
25	creates	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 prove	advcl
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 prove	aux
27	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 nature	parataxis
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 knowledge	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	31 knowledge	mark
30	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 knowledge	amod
31	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prove	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 knowledge	obl
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 folly	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 folly	det
36	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knowledge	appos
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 wishing	mark
38	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 folly	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 prove	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the true teaching		the nature	of a penalty; the result of every selfish wish nsubj	tree rules
2	create	present	the wish			what obj	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Result
3	prove	must		higher knowledge			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
4	wish	gerund	the folly not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	result			every selfish wish			nom result «phenomenon 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 3, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 11