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title: [4] This is quite novel in its way,—a product of the University: the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [4] This is quite novel in its way,—a product of the University: the original runs thus:— Who acts: This, original. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 3

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\[4\] This is quite novel in its way,—a product of the University: the original runs thus:—

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**Who acts:** This, original · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** way, product

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Sublimity of Intellectual Power. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, original), 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:pg8128:22:3
# text = [4] This is quite novel in its way,—a product of the University: the original runs thus:—
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	novel	novel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
21	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  | foul's way |  | a product of the University *conj*; 4 *appos*; novel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | the original | a product of the University *not said here* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme product=Trajectory |

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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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