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title: Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many thing… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many things unfinished?—be brave, and write a poem on death! Who acts: you. 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 9

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Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many things unfinished?—be brave, and write a poem on death!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, die, leave, unfinish, write · **To what, where:** many things, poem, death

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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 (you), 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:pg8128:10:9
# text = Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many things unfinished?—be brave, and write a poem on death!
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	unfinished	unfinish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | you *not said here* | many things |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **unfinish** | participle |  | many things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **write** | infinitive |  | a poem |  | death |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poem=Theme on death=Destination |

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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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