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title: [22] Even so trifling an occurrence as that of resting with another… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [22] Even so trifling an occurrence as that of resting with another person under the shadow of a tree, or drinking from the same spring with another person, is caused by the karma-relations of some previous existence. Who acts: 22, tree, trifling. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 137

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\[22\] Even so trifling an occurrence as that of resting with another person under the shadow of a tree, or drinking from the same spring with another person, is caused by the karma-relations of some previous existence.

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**Who acts:** 22, tree, trifling · **What happens:** trifle, rest, drink, cause, shadow · **To what, where:** occurrence, tree

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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 (22, tree, trifling), 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:pg8128:24:138
# text = [22] Even so trifling an occurrence as that of resting with another person under the shadow of a tree, or drinking from the same spring with another person, is caused by the karma-relations of some previous existence.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	trifling	trifle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	csubj:pass	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
42	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trifle** | gerund | 22 | a occurrence |  |  |  | that *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | 22 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with another person under the shadow of a tree | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | a tree *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | present · passive | trifling |  |  |  |  | by the karma relations of some previous existence | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP» |
| 5 | **shadow** |  |  | a tree |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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