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title: [66] Nothing can happen except as a result of eternal and irrevocabl… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [66] Nothing can happen except as a result of eternal and irrevocable law. Who acts: Nothing. 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 163

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\[66\] Nothing can happen except as a result of eternal and irrevocable law.

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**Who acts:** Nothing · **What happens:** happen, result · **To what, where:** eternal law

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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 (Nothing), 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:pg8128:25:163
# text = [66] Nothing can happen except as a result of eternal and irrevocable law.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | can | Nothing |  |  |  |  | except a result of eternal law | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **result** |  |  | eternal law |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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