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title: And when this plain fact is fully understood, the persistent attachm… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And when this plain fact is fully understood, the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets—notwithstanding their University training—to the ancient poetical methods, will be found reasonable enough. Who acts: this, persistent attachment, poets. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hear
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# In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 11

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And when this plain fact is fully understood, the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets—notwithstanding their University training—to the ancient poetical methods, will be found reasonable enough.

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**Who acts:** this, persistent attachment, poets · **What happens:** fact, understand, notwithstand, find, attach, train · **To what, where:** plain fact, University training, modern Japanese poets

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, persistent attachment, poets), 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:pg8128:23:12
# text = And when this plain fact is fully understood, the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets—notwithstanding their University training—to the ancient poetical methods, will be found reasonable enough.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	poetical	poetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
32	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fact** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | present · passive |  | plain fact |  |  |  | the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets *obl*; fully *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **notwithstand** | gerund | the persistent attachment of modern Japanese poets *not said here* | poets's University training |  |  |  | to the ancient poetical methods | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  | enough, reasonable *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 5 | **attach** |  |  | modern Japanese poets |  |  |  |  | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **train** |  | poets *= poet* |  |  |  |  |  | nom training «act transitive»: poss=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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