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title: The impossibility of preserving the inner quality of such poems in a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The impossibility of preserving the inner quality of such poems in a literal rendering, will now be obvious. Who acts: impossibility, literal. 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 55

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The impossibility of preserving the inner quality of such poems in a literal rendering, will now be obvious.

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**Who acts:** impossibility, literal · **What happens:** preserve, render, be · **To what, where:** inner quality

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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 (impossibility, literal), 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:pg8128:10:56
# text = The impossibility of preserving the inner quality of such poems in a literal rendering, will now be obvious.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	literal	literal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | gerund | the impossibility *not said here* | the inner quality of such poems in a literal |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **render** | gerund | a literal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | future | the impossibility |  |  |  | now | obvious *property* | 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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