--- title: [10] It is a pure gold image of that Buddha called the Sea-Sounding… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: [10] It is a pure gold image of that Buddha called the Sea-Sounding Tathâgata—_Kai-On-Nyōrai_,—because his preaching of the Law sounds through the world like the sound of the sea. Who acts: life, 10 pure gold image, preaching, Law. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, 10 pure gold image, preaching, Law), 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:pg8128:6:77 # text = [10] It is a pure gold image of that Buddha called the Sea-Sounding Tathâgata—_Kai-On-Nyōrai_,—because his preaching of the Law sounds through the world like the sound of the sea. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 Tathâgata Tathâgata PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 On on ADP IN _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Nyōrai Nyōrai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 — - PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 preaching preaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Law Law PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | life | a 10 pure gold image | | | | of that Buddha | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | past | a 10 pure gold image | | the Sea Sounding Tathâgata | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tathâgata=Recipient | | 3 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sound** | present | image's preaching of the Law | | | the world | | like the sound of the sea | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Location | | 5 | **preach** | | the Law | | | | | | nom preaching «communication intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/77/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/)