--- title: [44] _Kwahō_, a purely Buddhist term, signifying good fortune as the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: [44] _Kwahō_, a purely Buddhist term, signifying good fortune as the result of good actions in a previous life, has come to mean in common parlance good fortune of any kind. Who acts: Buddhist term, Kwahō. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddhist term, Kwahō), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:25:34 # text = [44] _Kwahō_, a purely Buddhist term, signifying good fortune as the result of good actions in a previous life, has come to mean in common parlance good fortune of any kind. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 44 44 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Kwahō Kwahō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 purely purely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 Buddhist buddhist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 signifying signify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 previous previous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 parlance parlance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **signify** | gerund | a Buddhist term *not said here* | good fortune | | | | as the result of good actions in a previous life | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortune=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present · perfect | Kwahō | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive | Kwahō *not said here* | | | | | in common parlance good fortune of any kind | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in fortune=Attribute | | 5 | **result** | | | good actions in a previous life | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/25/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/25/35/) - ↑ back to [Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/25/)