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title: —“_Old temple: bell voiceless; cherry-flowers fall_.” — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: —“_Old temple: bell voiceless; cherry-flowers fall_.” Who acts: cherry flowers. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 16

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—“\_Old temple: bell voiceless; cherry-flowers fall\_.”

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**Who acts:** cherry flowers · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** Old temple

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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 (cherry flowers), 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:pg8128:23:17
# text = —“_Old temple: bell voiceless; cherry-flowers fall_.”
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	voiceless	voiceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | present | cherry flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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