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title: _Only “I,” “I,”—the cry of the foolish semi! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _Only “I,” “I,”—the cry of the foolish semi! Who acts: foolish semi. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, In Time of Grief, Hearing a Sémi (cicada), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, In Time of Grief, Hearing a Sémi (cicada), sentence 1

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\_Only “I,” “I,”—the cry of the foolish semi!

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**Who acts:** foolish semi · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** cry

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, In Time of Grief, Hearing a Sémi (cicada). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish semi), 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:pg8128:20:1
# text = _Only “I,” “I,”—the cry of the foolish semi!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	semi	semi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **cry** |  | the foolish semi |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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