In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 97
The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words,—apparently talismanic words,—like those to be seen in Kern’s translation of the Saddharma-Pundarîka, ch. xxvi.
Who acts: Chinese text, Saddharma Pundarîka · What happens: contain, see, transliterate, translate · To what, where: transliterations, translation, mysterious Sanscrit words
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 (Chinese text, Saddharma Pundarîka), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 text | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 text | amod |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | transliterations | transliteration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 words | det |
| 8 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 9 | Sanscrit | Sanscrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 words | compound |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 transliterations | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contains | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
| 13 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 15 words | advmod |
| 14 | talismanic | talismanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 those | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 those | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 words | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 those | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 translation | case |
| 24 | Kern | Kern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 translation | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Kern | case |
| 26 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Pundarîka | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Pundarîka | det |
| 29 | Saddharma | Saddharma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Pundarîka | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Saddharma | punct |
| 31 | Pundarîka | Pundarîka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 translation | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ch | punct |
| 33 | ch | ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 ch | punct |
| 35 | xxvi | xxvi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ch | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the Chinese text | transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words | talismanic words like those obl | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot transliteration=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive · passive | the Chinese text not said here | Kern's translation of the Saddharma Pundarîka | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | transliterate | some mysterious Sanscrit words | nom transliteration «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | translate | the Saddharma Pundarîka | nom translation «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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