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title: [64] Monjū Bosatsu [_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva_] figures in Japanese Bu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [64] Monjū Bosatsu [_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva_] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one. Who acts: Monjū figures, three heads. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 148

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\[64\] Monjū Bosatsu \[\_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva\_\] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one.

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**Who acts:** Monjū figures, three heads · **What happens:** signify, be

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monjū figures, three heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:25:148
# text = [64] Monjū Bosatsu [_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva_] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	64	64	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Monjū	Monjū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
5	Bosatsu	Bosatsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Mañdjus’ri	Mañdjus'ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	Bodhisattva	Bodhisattva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
12	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advcl	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | Monjū figures in Japanese as a special divinity of wisdom |  |  |  |  | the proverb *nsubj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | three heads |  |  |  |  | than one; good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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