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title: _ To save folk having no karma-relation would be difficult indeed! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ To save folk having no karma-relation would be difficult indeed! Who acts: folk, karma relation. 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 69

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\_ To save folk having no karma-relation would be difficult indeed!

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**Who acts:** folk, karma relation · **What happens:** save, have, be · **To what, where:** folk

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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 (folk, karma relation), 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:pg8128:24:70
# text = _ To save folk having no karma-relation would be difficult indeed!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
7	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | folk |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | folk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | no karma relation |  |  |  |  | difficult, indeed *property* | tree rules |

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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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