In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 129

[61] That is to say, Your future life depends upon your conduct in this life; and you are thus free to choose for yourself the place of your next birth.

Who acts: future life, you, your · What happens: be, depend, choose, conduct · To what, where: place, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, 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 (future life, you, your), 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 61	punct
2	61	61	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 say	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 61	punct
4	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 61	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 depends	punct
9	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
10	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	compound
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depends	nsubj
12	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 conduct	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 conduct	nmod:poss
15	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depends	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 life	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 life	det
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 conduct	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 free	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 free	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 free	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 free	cop
23	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 free	advmod
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 choose	mark
26	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 free	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 yourself	case
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 choose	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 choose	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 birth	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 birth	nmod:poss
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birth	amod
34	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present				61 obl; say property	tree rules
2	depend	present	Your future life			upon your conduct in this life	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you			free, thus property	tree rules
4	choose	to-infinitive	you not said here	the place of your next birth		for yourself	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary
5	conduct		your		this life		nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 2, sentence 129

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 129