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title: [25] The comparison of _karma_ to the wheel of a wagon will be famil… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [25] The comparison of _karma_ to the wheel of a wagon will be familiar to students of Buddhism. Who acts: comparison. 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 151

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\[25\] The comparison of \_karma\_ to the wheel of a wagon will be familiar to students of Buddhism.

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**Who acts:** comparison · **What happens:** be, compare · **To what, where:** 25, karma

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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 (comparison), 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:pg8128:24:152
# text = [25] The comparison of _karma_ to the wheel of a wagon will be familiar to students of Buddhism.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the comparison of karma and the wheel of a wagon |  |  |  |  | to students of Buddhism; familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **compare** |  |  | karma |  |  |  |  | nom comparison «act 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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