In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 87
The foregoing comparison is unnecessarily strong; but the Buddhist teaching about heaven is in substance eminently logical.
Who acts: foregoing comparison, Buddhist teaching · What happens: forego, be · To what, where: substance
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 (foregoing comparison, Buddhist teaching), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comparison | det |
| 2 | foregoing | forego | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 comparison | amod |
| 3 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 5 | unnecessarily | unnecessarily | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 substance | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 substance | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teaching | det |
| 10 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teaching | amod |
| 11 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 substance | nsubj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teaching | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 substance | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 substance | case |
| 16 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | obl |
| 17 | eminently | eminently | ADV | _ | 18 logical | advmod |
| 18 | logical | logical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 substance | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forego | gerund | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the foregoing comparison | strong, unnecessarily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Buddhist teaching about heaven | substance | tree rules |
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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