In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 70
Explained as signifying the divine force that “strikes and breaks all the lusts (_bonnō_) of the world.”
What happens: explain, signify, break · To what, where: divine force · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 signifying | mark |
| 3 | signifying | signify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Explained | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 force | det |
| 5 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 force | amod |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signifying | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 breaks | obj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strikes | punct |
| 9 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 breaks | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 breaks | cc |
| 11 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 force | acl:relcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lusts | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lusts | det |
| 14 | lusts | lust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 breaks | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 bonnō | punct |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 bonnō | punct |
| 17 | bonnō | bonnō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lusts | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 bonnō | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 bonnō | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bonnō | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Explained | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | signify | gerund | the divine force | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | present | the divine force | strikes obl; all lusts and bonnō of the world obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient lust=Result |
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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