In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 80

And here is a holy sutra, called _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_, or “Treasure-Raining Sûtra”[13] you must be careful to recite it every night in your house—without fail….

Who acts: holy sutra, you · What happens: be, call, rain, recite · To what, where: holy sutra, Sûtra, sutra, house · 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 (holy sutra, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sutra	det
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sutra	amod
6	sutra	sutra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sutra	acl
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Ubō	punct
10	Ubō	Ubō	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Darani	punct
12	Darani	Darani	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ubō	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Kyō	punct
14	Kyō	Kyō	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ubō	conj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Ubō	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Raining	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Raining	cc
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Raining	punct
19	Treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Raining	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Treasure	punct
21	Raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 here	parataxis
22	Sûtra	Sûtra	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Raining	obj
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 Sûtra	punct
24	[	[	PUNCT	_	25 13	punct
25	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Raining	obj
26	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 13	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 careful	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 careful	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 careful	cop
30	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Raining	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 recite	mark
32	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 careful	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 recite	obj
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 recite	obl:unmarked
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 house	nmod:poss
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 recite	obl
39	—	-	PUNCT	_	41 fail	punct
40	without	without	ADP	_	41 fail	case
41	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
42	….	..	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a holy sutra				without fail; here property	tree rules
2	call	participle		a holy sutra not said here			Ubō and Darani and Kyō xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rain in a quote	gerund		Sûtra			Treasure compound; 13 obj	tree rules
4	is	must	you				careful property	tree rules
5	recite	to-infinitive	you not said here	sutra	your house	night		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 80