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description: _Kari_ signifies temporary, transient, fleeting,—as in the common Buddhist saying, _Kono yo kari no yo:_ “This world is a fleeting world.” Who acts: Kari _, world. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 10

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\_Kari\_ signifies temporary, transient, fleeting,—as in the common Buddhist saying, \_Kono yo kari no yo:\_ “This world is a fleeting world.”

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**Who acts:** Kari \_, world · **What happens:** signify, say, be · **To what, where:** common Buddhist, fleeting world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari \_, world), 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:pg8128:25:10
# text = _Kari_ signifies temporary, transient, fleeting,—as in the common Buddhist saying, _Kono yo kari no yo:_ “This world is a fleeting world.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	transient	transient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Kono	Kono	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	yo	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Slng	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kari	kari	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | Kari \_ |  |  |  |  | temporary *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kari \_ *not said here* |  |  | the common Buddhist |  | yo's Kono kari  no yo *ccomp* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in buddhist=Manner |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this world | a fleeting world |  |  |  |  | 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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