In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 108

‘Nay, Master!’ answered Nanda; ‘even as that woman surpassed in beauty the female ape that we saw on the mountain, so is she herself surpassed by even the least among these.’

Who acts: Master, we · What happens: answer, surpass, see · To what, where: Nanda, woman, female ape, mountain, beauty

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: who acts (Master, we), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Master	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Master	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Nanda	Nanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 woman	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 woman	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	parataxis
15	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 woman	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 beauty	case
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surpassed	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ape	det
19	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ape	amod
20	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beauty	appos
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 saw	obj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ape	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 surpassed	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	32 surpassed	advmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 surpassed	aux:pass
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 surpassed	nsubj:pass
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 she	conj
32	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 woman	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 least	case
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 least	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 least	det
36	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 surpassed	obl
37	among	among	ADP	_	38 these	case
38	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 least	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Master		Nanda		that woman parataxis	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nanda=Eventuality
2	surpass	participle		that woman not said here			in beauty	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in beauty=Attribute
3	see	past	we	the female ape		the mountain		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	surpass	present · passive		beauty			by the least among these	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 108

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 108