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title: But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these wo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose. Who acts: thousands, pictorial poems, these, poems. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 7

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But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose.

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**Who acts:** thousands, pictorial poems, these, poems · **What happens:** be, not do, seem, purpose · **To what, where:** mere insipidities

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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 (thousands, pictorial poems, these, 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:pg8128:23:8
# text = But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	pictorial	pictorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	insipidities	insipidity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | thousands of pictorial poems |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | pictorial poems |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | would | these | mere insipidities |  |  |  | to a reader ignorant of poems's true purpose | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme insipidity=Attribute |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | poems *= poem* |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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