In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 76
[10] It is a pure gold image of that Buddha called the Sea-Sounding Tathâgata—_Kai-On-Nyōrai_,—because his preaching of the Law sounds through the world like the sound of the sea.
Who acts: life, 10 pure gold image, preaching, Law · What happens: be, call, sound, preach · To what, where: 10 pure gold image, Sea Sounding Tathâgata, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, 10 pure gold image, preaching, Law), 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 | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 image | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 image | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 image | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 image | det |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 image | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 image | compound |
| 9 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Buddha | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 image | nmod |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tathâgata | det |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tathâgata | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sea | punct |
| 17 | Sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Tathâgata | amod |
| 18 | Tathâgata | Tathâgata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 _ | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | xcomp |
| 21 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 _ | iobj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nyōrai | punct |
| 23 | On | on | ADP | _ | 25 Nyōrai | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 On | punct |
| 25 | Nyōrai | Nyōrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kai | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kai | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sounds | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sounds | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 sounds | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 preaching | nmod:poss |
| 31 | preaching | preaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sounds | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Law | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Law | det |
| 34 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 preaching | nmod |
| 35 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Kai | parataxis |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sounds | obl |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 sound | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sound | det |
| 41 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sounds | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sea | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sea | det |
| 44 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sound | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | life | a 10 pure gold image | of that Buddha | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past | a 10 pure gold image | the Sea Sounding Tathâgata | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tathâgata=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | sound | present | image's preaching of the Law | the world | like the sound of the sea | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Location | |||
| 5 | preach | the Law | nom preaching «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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