In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 104

There is now in the human world, among the disciples of Shaka, a most excellent youth called Nanda, who is soon to be reborn into this heaven, and to become our bridegroom, because of his holy life.

What happens: be, call, become · To what, where: human world, excellent youth, Nanda, heaven, bridegroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. 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	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	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 is	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 world	amod
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disciples	punct
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 disciples	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 disciples	det
11	disciples	disciple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 world	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Shaka	case
13	Shaka	Shaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 disciples	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 youth	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 youth	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 excellent	advmod
17	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 youth	amod
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Shaka	appos
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 youth	acl
20	Nanda	Nanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reborn	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 reborn	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reborn	cop
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 reborn	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	27 reborn	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 reborn	aux:pass
27	reborn	reborn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Nanda	acl:relcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 heaven	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 heaven	det
30	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reborn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 become	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 become	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 become	mark
34	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bridegroom	nmod:poss
36	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 become	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 life	punct
38	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	42 life	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	38 because	fixed
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
41	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 life	amod
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bridegroom	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present		the human world; there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
2	call	participle	a excellent youth not said here			Nanda xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present · passive	Nanda	this heaven		reborn, soon property	tree rules
4	become	to-infinitive	our bridegroom and Nanda's holy life				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 104

The tree

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 104