In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 76
The _Dai-Nichi-Kyō_ says:—” At the sound of the blowing of the shell, all the heavenly deities are filled with delight, and come to hear the Law.”
Who acts: Dai, sound · What happens: say, fill, come, hear, blow · To what, where: heavenly deities, Law, shell · 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 (Dai, sound), 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 | 3 Dai | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dai | punct |
| 3 | Dai | Dai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nichi | punct |
| 5 | Nichi | Nichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dai | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kyō | punct |
| 7 | Kyō | Kyō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dai | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sound | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 — | punct |
| 13 | At | at | ADP | _ | 15 sound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sound | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blowing | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blowing | det |
| 18 | blowing | blowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sound | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 shell | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shell | det |
| 21 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blowing | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 filled | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 deities | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 deities | det |
| 25 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deities | amod |
| 26 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 filled | aux:pass |
| 28 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sound | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 delight | case |
| 30 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 come | cc |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 hear | mark |
| 35 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 come | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Law | det |
| 37 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 hear | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Dai and Nichi and Kyō | the sound of the blowing of the shell ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fill in a quote | present · passive | the sound of the blowing of the shell not said here | all heavenly deities | with delight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with delight=Instrument | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | the Law | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | blow in a quote | the shell | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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