In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 94
The KWAN-BUTSU-SANMAI-KYO says:—“Whosoever looks upon the footprints of the Buddha shall be freed from the results even of innumerable thousands of imperfections.”
Who acts: KWAN, Whosoever · What happens: say, look, free · To what, where: results · 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 (KWAN, Whosoever), 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 KWAN | det |
| 2 | KWAN | KWAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 BUTSU | punct |
| 4 | BUTSU | BUTSU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 KWAN | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 SANMAI | punct |
| 6 | SANMAI | SANMAI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 KWAN | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 KYO | punct |
| 8 | KYO | KYO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 KWAN | conj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 13 | Whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 footprints | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 footprints | det |
| 17 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 freed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Buddha | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buddha | det |
| 20 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 footprints | nmod |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 freed | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 freed | aux:pass |
| 23 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 looks | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 results | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 results | det |
| 26 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 freed | obl |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 thousands | advmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 thousands | case |
| 29 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thousands | amod |
| 30 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 freed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 imperfections | case |
| 32 | imperfections | imperfection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thousands | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the KWAN and BUTSU and SANMAI and KYO | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | Whosoever | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | free in a quote | shall · passive | Whosoever not said here | the results | upon the footprints of the Buddha; of innumerable thousands of imperfections | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: of thousand=Theme |
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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