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title: Is your best-beloved dead?—do not yield to useless grief, but try to… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Is your best-beloved dead?—do not yield to useless grief, but try to calm your mind by making a poem. Who acts: your. 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 8

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Is your best-beloved dead?—do not yield to useless grief, but try to calm your mind by making a poem.

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**Who acts:** your · **What happens:** be, not yield, try, calm, make, mind · **To what, where:** mind, poem

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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 (your), 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:pg8128:10:8
# text = Is your best-beloved dead?—do not yield to useless grief, but try to calm your mind by making a poem.
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	yield	yield	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss*; belov, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **yield** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | to useless grief | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to grief=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **calm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  | a poem |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
| 6 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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