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title: For it seems to me that, under ordinary conditions of karma, human r… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: For it seems to me that, under ordinary conditions of karma, human rebirth would necessarily proceed by a regular alternation.” Who acts: it, ordinary conditions. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 5

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For it seems to me that, under ordinary conditions of karma, human rebirth would necessarily proceed by a regular alternation.”

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**Who acts:** it, ordinary conditions · **What happens:** seem, proceed, condition · **To what, where:** me, karma

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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 (it, ordinary conditions), 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:pg8128:26:5
# text = For it seems to me that, under ordinary conditions of karma, human rebirth would necessarily proceed by a regular alternation.”
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	alternation	alternation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | it |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **proceed** | would | ordinary conditions of karma |  |  |  |  | by a regular alternation; human rebirth *nsubj*; necessarily *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | karma |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state 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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