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title: Even Heaven and Hell represent to the Buddhist only halting places u… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Heaven and Hell represent to the Buddhist only halting places upon the journey to Nirvâna. Who acts: Heaven. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 11

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Even Heaven and Hell represent to the Buddhist only halting places upon the journey to Nirvâna.

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**Who acts:** Heaven · **What happens:** represent, halt · **To what, where:** places

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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 (Heaven), 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:pg8128:25:11
# text = Even Heaven and Hell represent to the Buddhist only halting places upon the journey to Nirvâna.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	halting	halt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Nirvâna	Nirvâna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present | Heaven and Hell |  |  |  |  | to the Buddhist | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to buddhist=Attribute |
| 2 | **halt** | gerund | Heaven and Hell *not said here* | places |  |  |  | upon the journey to Nirvâna | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector place=Eventuality |

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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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