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title: The poems above rendered are more than pictorial: they suggest somet… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The poems above rendered are more than pictorial: they suggest something of emotion or sentiment. Who acts: poems. 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 6

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The poems above rendered are more than pictorial: they suggest something of emotion or sentiment.

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**Who acts:** poems · **What happens:** render, be, suggest · **To what, where:** poems, something

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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 (poems), 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:pg8128:23:7
# text = The poems above rendered are more than pictorial: they suggest something of emotion or sentiment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pictorial	pictorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | participle |  | the poems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the poems |  |  |  |  | than pictorial; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | poems *= poem* | something of emotion or sentiment |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

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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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