In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 83

In the Heavens of Desire, says the _Shōbō-nen-jō-kyō_, the pain of death is so great that all the agonies of all the hells united could equal but one-sixteenth part of such pain.

Who acts: Shōbō nen, jō kyō, agonies · What happens: say, kyō, be, equal, pain · To what, where: Heavens, death · 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 (Shōbō nen, jō kyō, agonies), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Heavens	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Heavens	det
3	Heavens	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 says	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Desire	case
5	Desire	Desire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Desire	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kyō	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 kyō	punct
10	Shōbō	Shōbō	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nen	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Shōbō	punct
12	nen	nen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kyō	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 nen	punct
14	jō	jō	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kyō	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 kyō	punct
16	kyō	kyō	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 great	nsubj
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 kyō	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pain	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pain	det
20	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kyō	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pain	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 great	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 great	advmod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 equal	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 agonies	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 agonies	det
29	agonies	agony	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 equal	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 hells	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 hells	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hells	det
33	hells	hell	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 agonies	nmod
34	united	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 agonies	nmod
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 equal	aux
36	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 great	advcl
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 part	cc
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 part	nummod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
40	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 part	amod
41	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 equal	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 pain	case
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 pain	amod
44	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 part	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present			the Heavens	of Desire	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heaven=Manner
2	kyō		Shōbō nen			the pain of death conj	tree rules
3	is	present	the jō kyō and the pain of death			great property	tree rules
4	equal	could	all agonies of all hells united			one sixteenth part of such pain conj	tree rules
5	pain			death			nom pain «state 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 83