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title: _[30] The fruit of ones own deeds [in a previous state of existence]. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _[30] The fruit of ones own deeds [in a previous state of existence]. Who acts: fruit. 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 174

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\_\[30\] The fruit of ones own deeds \[in a previous state of existence\].

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**Who acts:** fruit · **What happens:** own · **To what, where:** 30

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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 (fruit), 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:pg8128:24:175
# text = _[30] The fruit of ones own deeds [in a previous state of existence].
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | the fruit of ones | 30 |  |  |  | deeds *obj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deed=Theme |

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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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