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title: And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win th… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win the young man’s affection,—often repeating the invocation of the Nichiren sect: _Namu myō hō rengé kyō! Who acts: image, Buddhas, Nichiren sect. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 61

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And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win the young man’s affection,—often repeating the invocation of the Nichiren sect: \_Namu myō hō rengé kyō!

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**Who acts:** image, Buddhas, Nichiren sect · **What happens:** pray, win, repeat, invoke · **To what, where:** Namu, affection, invocation

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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 (image, Buddhas, Nichiren sect), 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:pg8128:1:61
# text = And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win the young man’s affection,—often repeating the invocation of the Nichiren sect: _Namu myō hō rengé kyō!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	invocation	invocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Nichiren	Nichiren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	sect	sect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Namu	Namu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
33	myō	myō	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	_
34	hō	hō	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
35	rengé	rengé	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
36	kyō	kyō	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | would | image | Namu |  |  |  | to the gods and the Buddhas | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **win** | might | the Buddhas | the young man's affection |  |  |  | image *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Eventuality |
| 3 | **repeat** | gerund | image *not said here* | the invocation of the Nichiren sect |  |  |  | often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invocation=Eventuality |
| 4 | **invoke** |  | the Nichiren sect |  |  |  |  |  | nom invocation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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