In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 66
As in the water a fish moves easily in any direction, so in the Buddha-state the fully-emancipated knows no restraints or obstructions.
Who acts: fish · What happens: move, emancipate, know · To what, where: direction, restraints, Buddha state
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 (fish), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | nsubj |
| 7 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 moves | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 direction | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 direction | det |
| 11 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knows | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 knows | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 state | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 state | det |
| 16 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 state | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buddha | punct |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knows | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knows | det |
| 20 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 22 emancipated | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fully | punct |
| 22 | emancipated | emancipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 knows | amod |
| 23 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moves | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 restraints | det |
| 25 | restraints | restraint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 knows | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 obstructions | cc |
| 27 | obstructions | obstruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 restraints | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | a fish | any direction | as the water; easily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | emancipate | participle | fully property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | present | a fish not said here | no restraints or obstructions | the Buddha state | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer restraint=Stimulus |
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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