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title: In the same way a poet would be condemned for attempting any _comple… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same way a poet would be condemned for attempting any _completeness_ of utterance in a very short poem: his object should be only to stir imagination without satisfying it. Who acts: object. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 24

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In the same way a poet would be condemned for attempting any \_completeness\_ of utterance in a very short poem: his object should be only to stir imagination without satisfying it.

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**Who acts:** object · **What happens:** condemn, attempt, be, satisfy · **To what, where:** poet, same way, \_ completeness \_, short poem, imagination

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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 (object), 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:pg8128:10:24
# text = In the same way a poet would be condemned for attempting any _completeness_ of utterance in a very short poem: his object should be only to stir imagination without satisfying it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	completeness	completeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:outer	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | would · passive |  | a poet |  | the same way |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **attempt** | gerund |  | any \_ completeness \_ of utterance |  | a short poem |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | should | artist's object |  |  |  |  | imagination *obj*; stir *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **satisfy** | gerund | artist's object *not said here* | imagination |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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