In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 74
The book _Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen_ calls it the symbol of the voice of the Buddha.
Who acts: book · What happens: call · To what, where: Law · 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: who acts (book), 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 | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 butsu | punct |
| 4 | Shin | shin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 butsu | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shin | punct |
| 6 | zoku | zoku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 butsu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 butsu | punct |
| 8 | butsu | butsu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calls | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ji | punct |
| 10 | ji | JI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 butsu | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ji | punct |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calls | nsubj |
| 14 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 calls | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 symbol | det |
| 17 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calls | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 symbol | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Buddha | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Buddha | det |
| 23 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 voice | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the book | Law | Shin zoku butsu nsubj; hen _ nsubj; the symbol of the voice of the Buddha xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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