In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 51

Western faiths especially teach that our life on earth is a larval state of greedy helplessness, and that death is a pupa-sleep out of which we should soar into everlasting light.

Who acts: Western faiths, life, death, we · What happens: teach, be, soar · To what, where: larval state, pupa sleep · 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: who acts (Western faiths, life, death, 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	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 faiths	amod
2	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 teach	nsubj
3	especially	especially	ADV	_	4 teach	advmod
4	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 state	mark
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 state	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 earth	case
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 life	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 state	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 state	det
12	larval	larval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 state	amod
13	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teach	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 helplessness	case
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 helplessness	amod
16	helplessness	helplessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 state	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sleep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sleep	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 death	det
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sleep	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sleep	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sleep	det
23	pupa	pupa	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sleep	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 pupa	punct
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teach	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 which	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 soar	obl
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 soar	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 soar	aux
31	soar	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sleep	parataxis
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 light	case
33	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 light	compound
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 soar	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	Western faiths			especially property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	our life on earth	a larval state		of greedy helplessness	tree rules
3	is a	present	that death	a pupa sleep			tree rules
4	soar	should	we		a pupa sleep	into everlasting light	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme out which=Source into light=Trajectory

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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 51