In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 13
“Well,” he continued, “if the physical conditions of human rebirth are all determined by the karma of the will relating to physical conditions, then sex would be determined by the will in relation to sex.
Who acts: wish, karma, relation · What happens: continue, determine, relate, sex, condition · To what, where: physical conditions, human rebirth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wish, karma, relation), 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 | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 continued | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sex | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 sex | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 determined | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conditions | det |
| 11 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conditions | amod |
| 12 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 determined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rebirth | case |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rebirth | amod |
| 15 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conditions | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 determined | aux:pass |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 determined | advmod |
| 18 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sex | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 karma | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 karma | det |
| 21 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 determined | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 relating | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 relating | det |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 relating | aux |
| 25 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 karma | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 conditions | case |
| 27 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 conditions | amod |
| 28 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 relating | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 determined | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 sex | advmod |
| 31 | sex | sex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | conj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 determined | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 determined | aux:pass |
| 34 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sex | ccomp |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 relation | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 relation | det |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 relation | aux |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 relation | case |
| 39 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 determined | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 sex | mark |
| 41 | sex | sex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 determined | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | wish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | determine a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | the karma | the physical conditions of human rebirth | all property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | relate in a quote | future | the karma not said here | to physical conditions | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to condition=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | sex in a quote | infinitive | wish not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | determine in a quote | would · passive | the relation | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sex in a quote | to-infinitive | the relation not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | condition in a quote | human rebirth | nom condition «state 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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