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title: [54] The teaching of Buddhist doctrine should always be adapted to t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [54] The teaching of Buddhist doctrine should always be adapted to the intelligence of the person to be instructed. 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 87

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\[54\] The teaching of Buddhist doctrine should always be adapted to the intelligence of the person to be instructed.

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**What happens:** adapt, instruct, teach · **To what, where:** teaching, intelligence, Buddhist doctrine

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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: 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:pg8128:25:87
# text = [54] The teaching of Buddhist doctrine should always be adapted to the intelligence of the person to be instructed.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | should · passive |  | the teaching of Buddhist doctrine |  |  |  | to the intelligence of the person *goal*; 54 *obl*; always *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to intelligence=Goal |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
| 3 | **teach** |  |  | Buddhist doctrine |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act 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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