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title: But for the same reason that Japanese short poems may be said to res… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But for the same reason that Japanese short poems may be said to resemble. Who acts: same reason. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 28

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But for the same reason that Japanese short poems may be said to resemble.

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**Who acts:** same reason · **What happens:** say, resemble · **To what, where:** Japanese short poems · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (same reason), 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:pg8128:10:28
# text = But for the same reason that Japanese short poems may be said to resemble.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive | the same reason *not said here* | Japanese short poems |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | to-infinitive | the same reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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