In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 99
‘Perhaps you will presently find reason to make the comparison yourself,’ answered the Buddha;—and instantly by supernatural power he ascended with Nanda to the _San-Jūsan-Ten_, which is the Second of the Six Heavens of Desire.
Who acts: you, Nanda, San Ten _ · What happens: find, make, answer, ascend, be · To what, where: reason, comparison, Buddha, San Ten _ · 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 (you, Nanda, San Ten _), 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 | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 5 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reason | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 comparison | det |
| 11 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 make | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Buddha | det |
| 17 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ascended | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ascended | cc |
| 21 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 26 ascended | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 power | amod |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ascended | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ascended | nsubj |
| 26 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 answered | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Nanda | case |
| 28 | Nanda | Nanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ascended | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 _ | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 _ | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 San | punct |
| 32 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 _ | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Jūsan | punct |
| 34 | Jūsan | Jūsan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 San | flat |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ten | punct |
| 36 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 _ | nummod |
| 37 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ascended | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Second | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 Second | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 Second | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Second | det |
| 42 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 _ | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Heavens | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Heavens | det |
| 45 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 Heavens | nummod |
| 46 | Heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 Second | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Desire | case |
| 48 | Desire | Desire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Heavens | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | reason | perhaps, presently property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | the comparison | yourself obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comparison=Product | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Buddha | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ascend | past | Nanda | the San Ten _ | by supernatural power; with Nanda; instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to _=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is | present | the San Ten _ | of the Six Heavens of Desire; second property | 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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