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title: Surely this fact of composition as ethical practice has larger inter… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely this fact of composition as ethical practice has larger interest than all the treatises ever written about the rules of Japanese prosody. Who acts: fact, Japanese prosody. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 17

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Surely this fact of composition as ethical practice has larger interest than all the treatises ever written about the rules of Japanese prosody.

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**Who acts:** fact, Japanese prosody · **What happens:** have, write, rule · **To what, where:** larger interest, treatises

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, Japanese prosody), 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:pg8128:10:17
# text = Surely this fact of composition as ethical practice has larger interest than all the treatises ever written about the rules of Japanese prosody.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ethical	ethical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	treatises	treatise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prosody	prosody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | this fact of composition as ethical practice | larger interest |  |  |  | than all treatises | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | all treatises *not said here* |  |  | ever | about the rules of Japanese prosody | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic |
| 3 | **rule** |  | Japanese prosody |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition 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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