In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 56

I shall order to be performed—no matter what the cost—every religious rite that can serve you in regard to your next rebirth; and all of us will pray without ceasing for you, that you may not have to wander in the Black Space, but may quickly enter Paradise, and attain to Buddha-hood.”

Who acts: I, matter, religious rite, all, you · What happens: order, perform, cost, serve, pray, cease · To what, where: matter, you, regard, Black Space, Paradise

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 (I, matter, religious rite, all), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 order	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 order	aux
3	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 performed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 performed	aux:pass
6	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 order	xcomp
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 order	obl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 cost	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cost	det
12	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matter	appos
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 rite	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 rite	det
15	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rite	amod
16	rite	rite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 serve	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 serve	aux
19	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rite	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 serve	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 regard	case
22	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 serve	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 rebirth	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rebirth	nmod:poss
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rebirth	amod
26	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 regard	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 pray	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pray	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 pray	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 all	nmod
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 pray	aux
33	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 order	conj
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	35 ceasing	mark
35	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 pray	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 ceasing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 have	advmod
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ceasing	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 wander	mark
45	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 have	xcomp
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 Space	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Space	det
48	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Space	amod
49	Space	Space	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 wander	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 enter	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 enter	cc
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 enter	aux
53	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	54 enter	advmod
54	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 order	parataxis
55	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 enter	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 attain	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 attain	cc
58	attain	attain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 order	parataxis
59	to	to	ADP	_	62 hood	case
60	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 hood	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 Buddha	punct
62	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 attain	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 order	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	shall	I	no matter			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	perform not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	no matter not said here				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»
3	cost		no matter			every religious rite appos	tree rules
4	serve	can	every religious rite	you	regard to your next rebirth		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in regard=Location
5	pray	future	all of us				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	cease	gerund	all of us not said here			for you	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	not have	may	you				tree rules
8	wander	to-infinitive	you not said here		the Black Space		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Trajectory
9	enter	may		Paradise		quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme paradise=Destination
10	attain	infinitive				to Buddha hood	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/26/56/

🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 56