In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 22
And what of the person able, through knowledge and practice of the higher law, to remain superior to all weaknesses of sex?”
What happens: remain, practice · To what, where: higher law
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nmod |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 what | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knowledge | punct |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 knowledge | case |
| 9 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 practice | cc |
| 11 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knowledge | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 law | det |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 law | amod |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 practice | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remain | mark |
| 18 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | parataxis |
| 19 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remain | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 weaknesses | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 weaknesses | det |
| 22 | weaknesses | weakness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 superior | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sex | case |
| 24 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weaknesses | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | to-infinitive | superior property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | practice | the higher law | nom practice «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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