In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 137

[22] Even so trifling an occurrence as that of resting with another person under the shadow of a tree, or drinking from the same spring with another person, is caused by the karma-relations of some previous existence.

Who acts: 22, tree, trifling · What happens: trifle, rest, drink, cause, shadow · To what, where: occurrence, tree

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (22, tree, trifling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 22	punct
2	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 trifling	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 22	punct
4	Even	even	ADV	_	6 trifling	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 trifling	advmod
6	trifling	trifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 caused	csubj:pass
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 occurrence	det
8	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trifling	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trifling	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 resting	mark
12	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 that	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 person	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resting	obl
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 shadow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shadow	det
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 person	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shadow	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drinking	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 drinking	cc
24	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 tree	acl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 spring	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spring	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spring	amod
28	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drinking	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spring	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trifling	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 caused	aux:pass
34	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
35	by	by	ADP	_	39 relations	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 relations	det
37	karma	karma	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 relations	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 karma	punct
39	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 caused	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 existence	case
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 existence	det
42	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 existence	amod
43	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 relations	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trifle	gerund	22	a occurrence		that obj	tree rules
2	rest	gerund	22 not said here			with another person under the shadow of a tree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drink	gerund	a tree not said here		spring		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cause	present · passive	trifling			by the karma relations of some previous existence	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»
5	shadow			a tree			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 137

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 137