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title: [55] Popular Buddhism teaches that to be born in the world of mankin… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [55] Popular Buddhism teaches that to be born in the world of mankind, and especially among a people professing Buddhism, is a very great privilege. Who acts: Popular Buddhism, people. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 92

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\[55\] Popular Buddhism teaches that to be born in the world of mankind, and especially among a people professing Buddhism, is a very great privilege.

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**Who acts:** Popular Buddhism, people · **What happens:** teach, bear, profess, be · **To what, where:** that, world, Buddhism, great privilege

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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 (Popular Buddhism, people), 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:pg8128:25:92
# text = [55] Popular Buddhism teaches that to be born in the world of mankind, and especially among a people professing Buddhism, is a very great privilege.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	professing	profess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Popular Buddhism | that |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive · passive | Popular Buddhism *not said here* |  |  | the world of mankind |  | among a people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **profess** | gerund | a people *not said here* | Buddhism |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent buddhism=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a great privilege |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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