In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 75
The _Dai-hi-kyō_ calls it the token of the preaching and of the power of the Mahayana doctrine.
Who acts: kyō _ · 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 (kyō _), 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 | 8 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 _ | punct |
| 3 | Dai | Dai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kyō | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dai | punct |
| 5 | hi | hi | NOUN | _ | 7 kyō | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hi | punct |
| 7 | kyō | kyō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | compound |
| 8 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calls | nsubj |
| 9 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calls | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 token | det |
| 12 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calls | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 preaching | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 preaching | det |
| 15 | preaching | preaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 token | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 power | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 preaching | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 doctrine | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 doctrine | det |
| 22 | Mahayana | Mahayana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 doctrine | compound |
| 23 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the kyō _ | Law | the token of the preaching and the power of the Mahayana doctrine 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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