--- title: The four sides presented five different colors,—blue, yellow, red, w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: The four sides presented five different colors,—blue, yellow, red, white, and black; these five colors respectively symbolizing Ether, Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth,—the five Buddhist elements which are metaphysically identified with the Five Buddhas. Who acts: four sides, five colors. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/) / 105 # In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 105 The four sides presented five different colors,—blue, yellow, red, white, and black; these five colors respectively symbolizing Ether, Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth,—the five Buddhist elements which are metaphysically identified with the Five Buddhas. **Who acts:** four sides, five colors · **What happens:** present, symbolize, identify · **To what, where:** five different colors, Ether, five Buddhist elements, five colors This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu\[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four sides, five colors), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:27:106 # text = The four sides presented five different colors,—blue, yellow, red, white, and black; these five colors respectively symbolizing Ether, Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth,—the five Buddhist elements which are metaphysically identified with the Five Buddhas. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 4 presented present VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 colors color NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 22 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 colors color NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 24 respectively respectively ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 symbolizing symbolize VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 26 Ether Ether PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 list _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 — - PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 40 Buddhist Buddhist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 44 metaphysically metaphysically ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 identified identify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 Buddhas buddha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **present** | participle | the four sides *not said here* | five different colors | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **symbolize** | gerund | this five colors the four sides and the five Buddhist elements *not said here* | Ether Water and Earth | | | | respectively *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ether=Theme | | 3 | **identify** | present · passive | | the five Buddhist elements | | | | with the Five Buddhas; metaphysically *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/106/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)