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title: [1] The consequence of any evil act or thought never,—so long as kar… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The consequence of any evil act or thought never,—so long as karma endures,—will cease to act upon the existence of the person guilty of it. Who acts: karma, person guilty. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its de
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 26

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\[1\] The consequence of any evil act or thought never,—so long as karma endures,—will cease to act upon the existence of the person guilty of it.

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**Who acts:** karma, person guilty · **What happens:** not think, endure, cease, act, exist · **To what, where:** consequence

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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, person guilty), 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:pg8128:24:27
# text = [1] The consequence of any evil act or thought never,—so long as karma endures,—will cease to act upon the existence of the person guilty of it.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	endures	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | the consequence of any evil act |  |  |  | 1 *discourse*; long *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **endure** | present | karma |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cease** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **act** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the existence of the person guilty of karma | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **exist** |  | the person guilty of karma |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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