In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 26

[1] The consequence of any evil act or thought never,—so long as karma endures,—will cease to act upon the existence of the person guilty of it.

Who acts: karma, person guilty · What happens: not think, endure, cease, act, exist · To what, where: consequence

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 (karma, person guilty), 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 1	punct
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 thought	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 1	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 act	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 act	det
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 act	amod
9	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 thought	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 never	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 thought	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 endures	mark
18	karma	karma	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 endures	nsubj
19	endures	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 long	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 endures	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 cease	punct
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cease	aux
23	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 act	mark
25	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cease	xcomp
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 existence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 existence	det
28	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 act	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 guilty	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guilty	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 guilty	compound
32	guilty	guilty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 existence	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 guilty	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	participle · passive		the consequence of any evil act	1 discourse; long property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	endure	present	karma			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cease	future				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	act	to-infinitive			upon the existence of the person guilty of karma	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	exist		the person guilty of karma			nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent

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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 26