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title: But perhaps this fact will lend additional interest to the following… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But perhaps this fact will lend additional interest to the following atoms of emotional expression:— Who acts: fact. 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 57

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But perhaps this fact will lend additional interest to the following atoms of emotional expression:—

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**Who acts:** fact · **What happens:** lend, follow · **To what, where:** additional interest, following atoms

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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 (fact), 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:pg8128:10:58
# text = But perhaps this fact will lend additional interest to the following atoms of emotional expression:—
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | future | this fact | additional interest | the following atoms of emotional expression |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interest=Theme to atom=Recipient |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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