In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 91
The priest will let a grave be made for her somewhere in the temple-garden, and will place over it a little sotoba bearing the text,—_Nyo-zé chikushō hotsu Bodai-shin_:[1] “Even within such as this animal, the Knowledge Supreme will unfold at last.”
Who acts: priest, grave, little sotoba, Knowledge Supreme · What happens: let, make, bear, unfold · To what, where: grave, text, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, grave, little sotoba, Knowledge Supreme), 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 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 grave | det |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 let | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 11 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 garden | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 14 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 garden | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 temple | punct |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 place | cc |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | aux |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sotoba | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sotoba | amod |
| 25 | sotoba | sotoba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | conj |
| 26 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 sotoba | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 text | det |
| 28 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bearing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hotsu | punct |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 hotsu | punct |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 hotsu | punct |
| 32 | Nyo | Nyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 zé | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nyo | punct |
| 34 | zé | zé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hotsu | compound |
| 35 | chikushō | chikushō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hotsu | compound |
| 36 | hotsu | hotsu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sotoba | conj |
| 37 | Bodai | Bodai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hotsu | appos |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Bodai | punct |
| 39 | shin | shin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Bodai | appos |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 animal | punct |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 animal | punct |
| 42 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 43 1 | punct |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 51 animal | discourse |
| 44 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 43 1 | punct |
| 45 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 animal | punct |
| 46 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 51 animal | advmod |
| 47 | within | within | ADP | _ | 51 animal | case |
| 48 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 51 animal | case |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 such | fixed |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 animal | det |
| 51 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sotoba | appos |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 unfold | punct |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Supreme | det |
| 54 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Supreme | compound |
| 55 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 unfold | nsubj |
| 56 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 unfold | aux |
| 57 | unfold | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 animal | parataxis |
| 58 | at | at | ADP | _ | 59 last | case |
| 59 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 unfold | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 57 unfold | punct |
| 61 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 unfold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | the priest | a grave | place over place and a little sotoba and zé chikushō hotsu obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive · passive | a grave not said here | for faith's temple garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for garden=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | a little sotoba and zé chikushō hotsu not said here | the text | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Patient | ||||
| 4 | unfold in a quote | future | the Knowledge Supreme | last | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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