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title: Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddh… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddha-nature within each of us. Who acts: good thought, Buddha nature. 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 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 59

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Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddha-nature within each of us.

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**Who acts:** good thought, Buddha nature · **What happens:** contribute, evolve · **To what, where:** evolution

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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 (good thought, Buddha nature), 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:pg8128:24:60
# text = Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddha-nature within each of us.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	contributes	contribute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contribute** | present | every good thought and act |  | the evolution of the Buddha nature within each of us |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to evolution=Recipient |
| 2 | **evolve** |  | the Buddha nature within each of us |  |  |  |  |  | nom evolution «process 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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