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title: _ Even [the experience of] a single shadow or a single flowing of wa… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Even [the experience of] a single shadow or a single flowing of water, is [made by] the karma-relations of a former life. Who acts: karma relations. 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 prag
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 135

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\_ Even \[the experience of\] a single shadow or a single flowing of water, is \[made by\] the karma-relations of a former life.

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**Who acts:** karma relations · **What happens:** flow, make, experience · **To what, where:** experience, single shadow

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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 (karma relations), 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:pg8128:24:136
# text = _ Even [the experience of] a single shadow or a single flowing of water, is [made by] the karma-relations of a former life.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive | the karma relations of a former life | the experience of a single shadow or a single flowing water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **experience** |  |  | a single shadow or a single flowing water |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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