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title: Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:—“What you have ask… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:—“What you have asked to see will be shown to you. Who acts: Bodhisattva, young companion. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 11

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Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:—“What you have asked to see will be shown to you.

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**Who acts:** Bodhisattva, young companion · **What happens:** say, ask, see, show · **To what, where:** young companion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisattva, young companion), 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:pg8128:1:11
# text = Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:—“What you have asked to see will be shown to you.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bodhisattva	Bodhisattva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:outer	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Bodhisattva |  | Bodhisattva's young companion |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Bodhisattva's young companion *= companion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Bodhisattva's young companion *= companion* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | future · passive |  |  | Bodhisattva's young companion *= companion* |  |  | What *nsubj:outer* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to you=Recipient |

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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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