In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 5

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 · What happens: seem, proceed, condition · To what, where: me, karma

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.

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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 seems	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seems	obl
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 me	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 conditions	punct
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 conditions	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 conditions	amod
10	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 proceed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 karma	case
12	karma	karma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conditions	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rebirth	punct
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rebirth	amod
15	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proceed	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 proceed	aux
17	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	18 proceed	advmod
18	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seems	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 alternation	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 alternation	det
21	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 alternation	amod
22	alternation	alternation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proceed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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 3, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 5