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title: And the accomplishment of this purpose,—by poet or by picture-maker,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And the accomplishment of this purpose,—by poet or by picture-maker,—depends altogether upon capacity to _suggest_, and only to suggest. Who acts: accomplishment, _. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 21

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And the accomplishment of this purpose,—by poet or by picture-maker,—depends altogether upon capacity to \_suggest\_, and only to suggest.

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**Who acts:** accomplishment, \_ · **What happens:** depend, suggest, accomplish · **To what, where:** purpose

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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 (accomplishment, \_), 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:pg8128:10:21
# text = And the accomplishment of this purpose,—by poet or by picture-maker,—depends altogether upon capacity to _suggest_, and only to suggest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | the accomplishment of this purpose and poet or picture maker |  |  |  |  | upon capacity; altogether *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | to-infinitive | the accomplishment of this purpose and poet or picture maker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accomplish** |  |  | this purpose |  |  |  |  | nom accomplishment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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