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title: But even in the highest and most immaterial zones of being,—in the H… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But even in the highest and most immaterial zones of being,—in the Heavens of Formlessness,—the cessation of effort and of the pain of effort, involves the penalty of rebirth in a lower state of existence. Who acts: highest immaterial zones. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 86

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But even in the highest and most immaterial zones of being,—in the Heavens of Formlessness,—the cessation of effort and of the pain of effort, involves the penalty of rebirth in a lower state of existence.

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**Who acts:** highest immaterial zones · **What happens:** be, involve, cease, pain · **To what, where:** penalty, lower state, effort

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., 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 (highest immaterial zones), 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:pg8128:4:86
# text = But even in the highest and most immaterial zones of being,—in the Heavens of Formlessness,—the cessation of effort and of the pain of effort, involves the penalty of rebirth in a lower state of existence.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	immaterial	immaterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Heavens	Heaven	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Formlessness	formlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cessation	cessation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	involves	involve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the Heavens; of Formlessness | tree rules |
| 2 | **involve** | present | the highest immaterial zones | the penalty of rebirth |  |  |  | in a lower state of existence *goal*; the cessation of effort and the pain of effort *nsubj* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme in state=Goal |
| 3 | **cease** |  |  | effort and the pain of effort |  |  |  |  | nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **pain** |  |  | effort |  |  |  |  | nom pain «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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