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# In Time of Grief, Hearing a Sémi (cicada)

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In Time of Grief, Hearing a Sémi (cicada) of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn: the whole text, 2 sentences and 22 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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\_Only “I,” “I,”—the cry of the foolish semi\![1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Any one knows that the world is void as its cast-off shell.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

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