In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 29
When the Buddha felt that the time of his Nirvâna was approaching, he went to Kushina [_Kusinârâ_], and there stood upon that stone.
Who acts: Buddha, time · What happens: feel, approach, go, stand · To what, where: Kushina, stone
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, time), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 approaching | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approaching | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Nirvâna | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Nirvâna | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Nirvâna | Nirvâna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 approaching | aux |
| 12 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Kushina | case |
| 17 | Kushina | Kushina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kusinârâ | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kusinârâ | punct |
| 20 | Kusinârâ | Kusinârâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Kushina | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kusinârâ | punct |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kusinârâ | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stood | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stood | cc |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stood | advmod |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 stone | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 stone | det |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Buddha | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | approach | past · progressive | the time of Buddha's Nirvâna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Buddha | Kushina | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kushina=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Buddha not said here | that stone; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location |
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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