Particle の in this sentence


Here is the sentence from ドラゴンボール, :

> 全世界注目の地球の運命を賭けたセルゲームが始まろうとしています。
>
> (the Cell Game is a martials arts tournament for those who don't know the
> manga)

I'm not sure of what the first の means here :

Is it the の equivalent to が in subordinate clauses? But then I don't really
get why 注目 would be used :

> The Cell Game, on which the (attention of the) entire world stakes the
> future of the earth, is about to begin.

My guess is it's the same の as in :

> 兄のジョンだ。 This is John, my brother.

Then a translation would be :

> The Cell game, center of the entire world's attention, and on which we bet
> the destiny of the earth, is about to begin.

Or is it something else?

Thanks for your time.




There's something interesting going on here. The の in 注目の選手 can be easily
explained as a standard の used to string nouns together, like "of" in "the
player of attention".

However, in 全世界注目の選手, it gets harder to defend this standpoint. 全世界注目 is not
really one word, it occurs almost exclusively with の after it (Google gave me
very few examples with を and が, and they seem a bit strange, at least to me).
Also, the intonation, 全世↓界注目の, not 全世界ちゅ↓うもく, hints that we're not talking
about a compound noun here.

It seems more natural to treat this as a relative clause, i.e. 全世界注目の選手 =
全世界が注目する選手. This is a productive pattern, e.g. 大統領推薦の○○ = 大統領が推薦する○○, although
it seems restricted to formal contexts. There's also a parallel without a
Sino-japanese する-verb, e.g. 大統領率いる社会党, but here the only surface difference is
the missing subject marker.

It seems obvious that this syntax could come from Chinese/kanbun influence,
e.g. Mandarin 全世界注目的公司, but others would probably be better at filling in the
details. Also if anybody has better examples, feel free to comment or edit.




I think you can parse it this way:

> 全世界注目の [ [地球の運命を賭けた] セルゲーム ]

The first phrase, 全世界注目の〜, means the whole world's attention is on
something--[see Weblio for more examples of
注目の](http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/%22%E6%B3%A8%E7%9B%AE%E3%81%AE%22).
I think the key to understanding this is that it relates to the following head
noun セルゲーム and not to 地球.

The second phrase, 地球の運命を賭けた, I think you understand already. I don't think
the earlier phrase is acting as a subject here.

