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title: _Only the pitiful husk!… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _Only the pitiful husk!… A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, On the Cast-off Shell of a Sémi, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, On the Cast-off Shell of a Sémi, sentence 1

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\_Only the pitiful husk!…

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**To what, where:** pitiful husk

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, On the Cast-off Shell of a Sémi. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:21:1
# text = _Only the pitiful husk!…
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husk	husk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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