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title: Translated, this would appear to mean only,—“_Two butterflies!… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Translated, this would appear to mean only,—“_Two butterflies!… Who acts: this. 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 34

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Translated, this would appear to mean only,—“\_Two butterflies!…

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** translate, appear, mean

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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 (this), 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:pg8128:10:34
# text = Translated, this would appear to mean only,—“_Two butterflies!…
1	Translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | participle | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **appear** | would | this |  |  |  |  | Two butterflies *parataxis* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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