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title: She was the most beautiful woman of her time, and so great a poet th… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: She was the most beautiful woman of her time, and so great a poet that she could move heaven by her verses, and cause rain to fall in time of drought. Who acts: Komachi. 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 87

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She was the most beautiful woman of her time, and so great a poet that she could move heaven by her verses, and cause rain to fall in time of drought.

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**Who acts:** Komachi · **What happens:** be, move, cause, fall, verse · **To what, where:** beautiful woman, heaven, rain

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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 (Komachi), 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:pg8128:1:88
# text = She was the most beautiful woman of her time, and so great a poet that she could move heaven by her verses, and cause rain to fall in time of drought.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Komachi | the beautiful woman and a great poet |  |  | time | a great poet *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | could | Komachi | heaven |  |  |  | by Komachi's verses | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | Komachi *not said here* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Komachi *not said here* | rain *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **verse** |  | Komachi |  |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=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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