--- title: And here is a holy sutra, called _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_, or “Treasure-Rain… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: And here is a holy sutra, called _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_, or “Treasure-Raining Sûtra”[13] you must be careful to recite it every night in your house—without fail…. Who acts: holy sutra, you. 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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 (holy sutra, you), 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:pg8128:6:81 # text = And here is a holy sutra, called _Ubō-Darani-Kyō_, or “Treasure-Raining Sûtra”[13] you must be careful to recite it every night in your house—without fail…. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sutra sutra NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Ubō Ubō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Darani Darani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Kyō Kyō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Raining rain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 22 Sûtra Sûtra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 recite recite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 — - PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 fail fail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 …. .. PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a holy sutra | | | | | without fail; here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a holy sutra *not said here* | | | | Ubō and Darani and Kyō *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | gerund | | Sûtra | | | | Treasure *compound*; 13 *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | must | you | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **recite** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sutra | | your house | night | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/81/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/6/)