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description: [61] That is to say, Your future life depends upon your conduct in this life; and you are thus free to choose for yourself the place of your next birth. Who acts: future life, you, your. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, w
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 129

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\[61\] That is to say, Your future life depends upon your conduct in this life; and you are thus free to choose for yourself the place of your next birth.

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**Who acts:** future life, you, your · **What happens:** be, depend, choose, conduct · **To what, where:** place, life · **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 (future life, you, your), 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:pg8128:25:129
# text = [61] That is to say, Your future life depends upon your conduct in this life; and you are thus free to choose for yourself the place of your next birth.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	61	61	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | 61 *obl*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | present | Your future life |  |  |  |  | upon your conduct in this life | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | free, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the place of your next birth |  |  |  | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **conduct** |  | your |  |  | this life |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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