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title: [3] Regret and desire are equally vain in this world of impermanency… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] Regret and desire are equally vain in this world of impermanency; for all joy is the beginning of an experience that must have its pain. Who acts: 3 Regret, experience, beginning. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 36

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\[3\] Regret and desire are equally vain in this world of impermanency; for all joy is the beginning of an experience that must have its pain.

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**Who acts:** 3 Regret, experience, beginning · **What happens:** be, have, pain · **To what, where:** world, beginning, pain

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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 (3 Regret, experience, beginning), 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:pg8128:24:37
# text = [3] Regret and desire are equally vain in this world of impermanency; for all joy is the beginning of an experience that must have its pain.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	impermanency	impermanency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 3 Regret and desire |  |  | this world of impermanency |  | equally, vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 3 Regret and desire *not said here* | the beginning |  |  |  | for all joy; of a experience | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | must | a experience | beginning's pain |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 4 | **pain** |  | beginning |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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