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description: _ It is not easy to be born among men, and to meet with [the good fortune of hearing the doctrine of] Buddhism. Who acts: good fortune. 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
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 90

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\_ It is not easy to be born among men, and to meet with \[the good fortune of hearing the doctrine of\] Buddhism.

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**Who acts:** good fortune · **What happens:** not be, bear, meet, hear, indoctrinate · **To what, where:** doctrine, Buddhism

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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 (good fortune), 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:pg8128:25:90
# text = _ It is not easy to be born among men, and to meet with [the good fortune of hearing the doctrine of] Buddhism.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among men | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the good fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fortune=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund | the good fortune *not said here* | the doctrine of Buddhism |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer doctrine=Stimulus |
| 5 | **indoctrinate** |  |  | Buddhism |  |  |  |  | nom doctrine «cognition 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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