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title: “The happiness or unhappiness of the new existence would not be deci… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “The happiness or unhappiness of the new existence would not be decided by sex alone: it would of necessity depend upon many conditions in combination.” Who acts: sex. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with its dependency 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 20

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“The happiness or unhappiness of the new existence would not be decided by sex alone: it would of necessity depend upon many conditions in combination.”

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**Who acts:** sex · **What happens:** not decide, depend · **To what, where:** happiness, combination

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sex), 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:pg8128:26:20
# text = “The happiness or unhappiness of the new existence would not be decided by sex alone: it would of necessity depend upon many conditions in combination.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **decide** *in a quote* | would · passive | sex | the happiness of the new existence or unhappiness |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **depend** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  | combination |  | upon many conditions | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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