In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 114
Here I, too, have been constantly reciting the _Nembutsu_ before a tablet with her name upon it!
Who acts: Kuni · What happens: recite, name · To what, where: _ Nembutsu
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kuni), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 reciting | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Here | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reciting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reciting | aux |
| 8 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 9 reciting | advmod |
| 9 | reciting | recite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nembutsu | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nembutsu | compound |
| 12 | Nembutsu | Nembutsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reciting | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nembutsu | punct |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 tablet | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tablet | det |
| 16 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reciting | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reciting | obl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 reciting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | present · perfect · progressive | the _ Nembutsu | here | before a tablet | with Kuni's name upon tablet; constantly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Theme | ||
| 2 | name | Kuni | upon tablet | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl |
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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