Questions tagged [parsing]
構文解析. Questions about understanding how a phrase / sentence / utterance is put together, what its components are.
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Can you omit the action when using と and help understanding/parsing this sentence
『監視されているみたいだ』と不評の声も多い見回りだけど, 案外さっきみたいな事柄のためにやっているのかもしれないな。
The complete sentence is given above. As the title has said, can you omit the action when using と? From some sentences I've seen, an action ...
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様子見くらい いいっしょ? I can't make sense out of it [duplicate]
Mother:当分ここに住むから｡
Son:えっ!? 何だよそれ｡
Mother:カワイイ一人息子が頭 打ったんだ｡
Mother:様子見くらい いいっしょ｡
Here's the question: What does 様子見くらいいいっしょ｡ mean?
様子見 = wait-and-see
くらい = about?around? dunno
いいっしょ =...
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習う学習 translation
肝心な2年生で習う学習範囲は、1年生の時よりも当然難易度が上がっている。
習う: to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in.
学習: study; learning; tutorial.
I am confused ...
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メアリーがアメリカに帰って悲【かな】しいです meaning
This is an example て-form sentence from bunpro where the translation is "Mary returned to the USA and I am sad."
I'm wondering if this could also mean "Mary returned to the USA and she is sad" as ...
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What does もえと mean?
I was reading a Tofugu article, https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/da-vs-desu-in-real-life/, and one of the examples they give was this text conversation.
I'm just curious what 私｛わたし｝ももえと could mean. My ...
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Meaning of the phase: 筋ってもん
I'm having a bit of trouble getting a grasp of 筋ってもん (sujitte mon) and what it's supposed to convey. Does it possibly have kind of declarative function for whatever precedes it?
Examples include:
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Can someone explain the usage of Verb+り in these sentences please
I previously practice reading beginner’s japanese book and was surprised by this verb form, the verb+り. Can someone please help explain about its usage or where I can study more about this form of ...
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What is the meaning of 取り戻そうと in this sentence?
In the following sentence:
問題を無視することはできません。しかし、
問題にばかり注目していると過去の状態を取り戻そうと努力することになります
The part where it says: 「取り戻そうと努力することになります」 more specifically that "そうと" where does it come from?
What's the ...
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What part does 「成」 play when tailed to a word?
So I recently came across a song called 「未完成」 by Leo Ieiri.
I know 未完 means "Incomplete" or "Unfinished". I'm interested in knowing what that 「成」 represents when used after 「未完」 and what are other ...
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Is 誰か行きたい人 a form of double-headed relative clause?
I came across the phrase "誰か行きたい人" in this thread and I think it would be used in a context like
"誰か行きたい人がいるか？".
However I am kind of confused by how it works grammatically.
Is 誰か行きたい a relative ...
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Strange use of 終わる
やっとお許しが出て、物置から出してもらった時には、もう夏休みが始まっていた。
When he was finally forgiven and allowed to come out of his cupboard the summer holidays had already begun.
ダドリーは、買ってもらったばかりの８ミリカメラをとっくに壊し、ラジコン飛行機も墜落させ、おまけに、...
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Action of ではない on sentence part
I found on NHK easy Japanese a puzzling sentence:
アメリカのトランプ大統領は、戦争をするために殺したのではないと言っています。
My problem is with
戦争をするために殺したのではない
My first attempt at translation would use mentally parenthesis as shown ...
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Usage of 全部束 and かなう
同級生の男の子を全部束にしてもかなわないほど頻繁にハリーは散髪させられたが、...
Harry was made to get a haircut so often that even if you made the boys in his class into a complete bundle it would not rival it
The meaning is clear (I ...
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I-adjective in く form modifies a noun/adverb
In the song 宝物 by WANIMA, the chorus goes:
思いにまかせて
感じるまま描いて
まだ見えない明日へ
誰にも止められない
今この瞬間が紛れもなく全て。
紛れもない is in く form, which means it's modifiying a verb. However, 全て is nowhere near a verb, but might ...
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Whats the name of this izakaya? [closed]
everyone I was in an awsome izakaya in Osaka but wasnt able to figure out the name of it and stuff like it is private owned or of a chain.
Below is a picture of its front (google translate etc. cant ...
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How to parse the following から and is the もとで a noun?
The following sentence appears on a page in my book:
悪夢から一夜明け、アインのもとで訓練を重ねる日々が始まった。
I think the above から has the meaning of "after"; but the suspicious possibility of the から being a questioning か ...
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いけません in the short form
I understand that the dictionary definition of the expression いけません is "must not do", and that it can be used in conjunction with say なきゃ in a sentence such as the following:
試験があるから、勉強しなきゃいけません。
I ...
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interpretting 人となりのわかるような事
確かに彼女は、ただ一緒にいるというだけで、人となりのわかるような事を話すとも思えない。
wonder how i should approach this
[人となり(の/が)わかる]ような事
can 人となり itself わかる something?
or
[人となり]の[わかるような事]
Either way it is an awkward read
thank you
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Is 私 in 私が我慢ならず object or subject?
I found this sentence:
食事の時しか顔を合わせることもなかったし、互いに口を開いて声を出すこともなかった。映画をよく見に行くぐらいのことしかしない高校生だったのだが、母から見れば俗世に気持を奪われている私が我慢ならず、たまに憤怒の言葉を投げつけてきたが、そうすると私は、十八になったらすぐに家を出て行くんだ、と母に言い返していた
which is translated:
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Is this an error…?
I came across the following in a book I'm reading but have ever seen that kind of grammar before, and Google isn't bringing anything up at all:
固くしてみあ
I'm beginning to think it's a print error.
If ...
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Can adverbs modify adjectives?
For instance：
昔の日本は身分の差が大きく厳しい上下関係があります。
Is 大きく modifying 厳しい? But the way I understand this sentence is in ancient Japan, there were large social divides and strict social hierarchy, which is in ...
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interpreting ～とどちらが上というものでもなく
王の身辺警護は基本的に親衛隊が行っている。
これは騎士団とどちらが上というものでもなく、単純に役割を分担している。
ただし王の護衛という重要な役目であり、当然ながら構成する騎士は選りすぐりのエリートばかりだ。
The King's personal security is basically done by his elite bodyguards
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会社での出来事を引きずったままだった私 passivity
speaker doesn't want to trouble her only family member, A, with her tough day at work. A however, does notice something wrong.
会社での出来事を引きずったままだった私の様子がおかしいと、Aは気付いたようだった。
I find this statement is ...
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Given the context, what is the correct way to parse this sentence segment 次に訊くべき言葉が出てこない。?
この寒さをしのげそうな防寒服を手渡され、それを着込みながら僕は彼女に質問した。
「君は……」
[名前なら、ないわ]
こちらから訊くより先に、低く呟くような声が返ってきた。
「呼びにくければアインと呼んで。
いつもそう呼ばれてたから」
質問の出鼻をくじかれ、次に訊くべき言葉が出てこない。
My western brain doesn't ...
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The use of かります in a sentence
This is the sentence I'm having troubles with:
シェリーちゃんが助かりますよーに!
I know that シェリーちゃん is Sherry-chan and,
助 is help/rescue/assist. The only part I want to know about is the かりますよーに。I have been ...
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What are the adverb + 何 +を doing in the following sentence?
In this book I'm translating, the narrative character is told the following line of dialogue by a girl before the sentence I'm asking about (bolded below).
「あなたには、生まれついての才能があるのよ
人を殺す才能。
生き残る才能。
...
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What is the difference in meaning between「この自然が多い町」and 「自然が多いこの町」?
Please, see this related question for more context.
Thank you very much.
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Is it possible to join directly い-adj + この + noun?
I came across this multiple choice sentence within my homework exercises:
I assume that the correct answer is 気に入った. However, the この demonstrative seems out of place to me. I would rather use just ...
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Head-internal relative clauses
I am trying to figure out head-internal relative clauses. A paper I looked at presented two versions of the same sentence, one with the head word (りんご) outside the relative clause:
[皿の上にあった]...
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placement of さえ
I came across this statement involving さえ.
私はAKB48が全然分からない。一番有名な人さえ名前がわからない。
My question is: Is there a general rule as to where you can place さえ?
What about: 一番有名な人の名前さえ分からない。What is the meaning ...
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I need some help understanding the grammar of しのげそうな in この寒さをしのげそうな防寒服を手渡され
I can understand the gist of what the below sentence is saying; but the part in the first section that's only hiragana (bolded part) is confusing me.
この寒さをしのげそうな防寒服を手渡され、それを着込みながら僕は彼女に質問した。
I ...
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１０００万の妹好きを… in this sentence
MC's sister wakes him up.
mc「なに……してるんだ？」
sister「先に目が覚めたから、お兄ちゃんの寝顔を見つめていたの……♪」
全国１０００万の妹好きを下僕に出来るだろう、笑顔と台詞が返ってくる。
..., i reply with a smile.
i an assume this is saying in a roundabout ...
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How to break 信じようとしていただけかも知れない into separate parts?
I tried, but I came up with either:
信じる(~よう(vol.)) + とする(~ていた(prog. past)) + だけ + かもしれない。
信じよう + として + いただける(stem) + かもしれない。
I highly doubt that second one is true, because かもしれない "takes" dictionary ...
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What does 微温い mean in this context?
I read a line in a book where the speaker is berating another party.
悪く言われてるのは、誰のせいだと思ってやがる。お前が微温いこと言ってるからだろうが
I can't figure out the appropriate way to parse this without understanding the ...
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How do I parse this sentence using という話?
My question is about how to correctly parse the second line in the below.
「しかし廃棄迷宮ですか……いろんなものを捨てていたら最後には溢れちゃいそうです」
「廃棄迷宮に果てはなく、一説には異次元に繋がっているという話もあるくらいだぞ」
「話が真実だとするとゴミ問題の類は全て解決するんだけどな」
I ...
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What does おとこえしや mean?
This is a sentence from 『風の又三郎』 by 宮沢賢治.
ところがその跡のようなものは、まだ百歩も行かないうちに、おとこえしや、すてきに背の高いあざみの中で、二つにも三つにも分かれてしまって、どれがどれやらいっこうわからなくなってしまいました。
My question is, what does おとこえしや mean?
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Can verbs simutaniously use the volitional form and negative form? [closed]
I came across the following sentence in a book:
身体を起こし、手足がこれといった支障もなく動くのを確かめた。
and searched on Jisho.org for 障もなく. It sent me to https://jisho.org/search/障む, saying that "障もなく is the negative ...
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Combination of causative-passive and intransive verb with a direct object?
I am struggling to understand this sentence’s structure:
宿題を時間内に終わらせられなかった。
I think I get the idea of causative-passive as in “I was being made to finish the homework”. However, I noticed that we ...
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Past tense …でする vs. past tense copula です confusion
Maybe this is a stupid question, because very likely it is possible for advanced learners to distuiguish this. However, in the present tense ...でする (particle で) and ...です (copula) are distinct, while ...
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Is 黙って言うこと a set phrase?
I've read today the sentence:
お母さんにどなられても，しかられても，羊のように黙って言うことを聞きました。
The part I understand says that even if she was screamed at or scolded by the mother, like a sheep...
Now, I can't find a ...
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What does 囚えよう mean in this book?
I'm currently reading a screenplay regarding to Oda Nobunaga.
In one of the character line, it is written that
あなたは死して尚、この僕を囚えようというのですか？
Base on my search, it seems that the kanji 囚 is associated ...
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など無いも同然だった in this scene
narrator depicting a defloration scene
深々と肉棒の打ち込まれたAの股間からは、彼女がついさっきまで純潔だった事を示す赤い血が、傷口からあふれ出して太ももにまで垂れていた。
しかし、Aの感じている痛みは、外からも見える傷口だけではない。むしろ苦痛という点では、処女膜が裂けた痛みなど無いも同然だった。
However, the pain ...
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Word-order with の- and に- particles
I have this part of a sentence
影{かげ}の次第{しだい}に濃{こ}く集{あつ}まる部分{ぶぶん}に
along with its translation:
"in the part where the shadows gradually gathered and thickened"
which makes contextual sense, but ...
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Parsing the sentence 書く人物の顔が頭に入っていないと効果はない
This sentence is from Death Note, specifically on how to use it.
This sentence is written in-universe using English. It states, “This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s ...
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What does「ごとが」mean?
Is this (the phrase/word ごとが) a grammar point or vocabulary? I tried to look it up in Takoboto dictionary but it doesn't return a specific word.
Also, if the phrase/word 「ごとが」 is a grammar point. How ...
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魅力的って言われてもお前だって困る in this context
girl「まさかお前っ……こ、こここの胸が私の魅力だと言いたいのか！？」
mc「誰もそんなこと言ってないだろ！？」
girl「…………」
mc「ああ違う、魅力的じゃないとも言ってない！ いやすごい！ お前の胸はすごいよ！」
mc「でもそんなの魅力的って言われてもお前だって困るだろ！？」
uh no, i'm not saying that your ...
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interpretting お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！
enemy returns a while after being defeated by the mc
mc「ど、どうしてあなたが……！ この間滅したはずなのに……！？」
enemy「お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！」
enemy charges....
i will "do it" without beating you, i can't extinguish ...
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who 己 is indicating in this sentence
The person the speaker is talking to previously warned of disaster if the the speaker didn't do something, but the speaker did not want to break traditions and did not interfere. That person shows up ...
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unamed subject in this conversation and use of ~のに… in this sentence
gossip among unnamed students while being made to run laps, about a time when the ゴリ男 gym teacher got really angry at something.Reader does not anything about what had happened.
「これって、...
