In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 58
_ (“Hail to the Buddha Amitâbha!”),—repeated, as a prayer, for the sake of the dead.
What happens: repeat · To what, where: Hail
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: 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 | _ | 4 Hail | punct |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hail | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hail | punct |
| 4 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Amitâbha | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Amitâbha | det |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Amitâbha | compound |
| 8 | Amitâbha | Amitâbha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hail | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amitâbha | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amitâbha | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amitâbha | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hail | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 repeated | punct |
| 14 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Hail | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prayer | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 prayer | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prayer | det |
| 18 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repeated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sake | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sake | det |
| 22 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repeated | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dead | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dead | det |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sake | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle | as a prayer; for the sake of the dead | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/58/