In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 83

The _Hokké-Monku_ says:—“The effect of a wheel is to crush something; and the effect of the Buddha’s preaching is to crush all delusions, errors, doubts, and superstitions.

Who acts: Hokké, effect, Buddha · What happens: say, be, effect, preach · To what, where: wheel, preaching · 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 (Hokké, effect, Buddha), 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	7 says	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
3	Hokké	Hokké	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Monku	punct
5	Monku	Monku	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hokké	flat
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Hokké	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 crush	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 crush	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 effect	det
12	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crush	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wheel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 effect	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 crush	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 crush	mark
18	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 crush	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 crush	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crush	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 effect	det
23	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crush	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 preaching	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Buddha	det
26	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 preaching	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Buddha	case
28	preaching	preaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 effect	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 crush	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 crush	mark
31	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 delusions	det
33	delusions	delusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 crush	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 errors	punct
35	errors	error	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 delusions	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 doubts	punct
37	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 delusions	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 superstitions	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 superstitions	cc
40	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 crush	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Hokké			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the effect of a wheel		something obj; crush property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the effect of the Buddha's preaching		all delusions and errors and doubts obj; superstitions conj; crush property	tree rules
4	effect in a quote			a wheel		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	effect in a quote			the Buddha's preaching		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
6	preach in a quote		the Buddha			nom preaching «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 83

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 83