In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 96

It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra translated out of Sanscrit into Chinese by the Indian priest Amoghavajra, probably during the eighth century.

Who acts: service · What happens: be, translate, title · To what, where: Japanese pronunciation, short sutra, Chinese

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 (service), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pronunciation	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pronunciation	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pronunciation	det
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pronunciation	amod
5	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 title	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 title	det
8	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pronunciation	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 sutra	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sutra	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 short	advmod
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sutra	amod
13	sutra	sutra	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 title	nmod
14	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sutra	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 Sanscrit	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Sanscrit	case
17	Sanscrit	Sanscrit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 translated	obl:agent
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 Chinese	case
19	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 translated	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 priest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 priest	det
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 priest	amod
23	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 translated	obl
24	Amoghavajra	Amoghavajra	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 priest	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 century	punct
26	probably	probably	ADV	_	30 century	advmod
27	during	during	ADP	_	30 century	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 century	det
29	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 century	amod
30	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Amoghavajra	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pronunciation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	service	the Japanese pronunciation	of the title of a short sutra	tree rules
2	translate	participle		a short sutra not said here	into Chinese result; by the Indian priest; Sanscrit obl:agent	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into chinese=Result
3	title			a short sutra		nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 96

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 96