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title: _ Praying to Buddha one goes to hell. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Praying to Buddha one goes to hell. Who acts: Praying. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 124

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\_ Praying to Buddha one goes to hell.

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**Who acts:** Praying · **What happens:** pray, go · **To what, where:** Buddha, hell

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Praying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:24:125
# text = _ Praying to Buddha one goes to hell.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | gerund |  |  | Buddha |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **go** | present | Praying |  |  | hell |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hell=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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.

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