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title: Yet these little texts have a very real merit of their own, and an i… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet these little texts have a very real merit of their own, and an intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience. Who acts: little texts. 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 9

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Yet these little texts have a very real merit of their own, and an intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience.

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**Who acts:** little texts · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** real merit

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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 (little texts), 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:pg8128:23:10
# text = Yet these little texts have a very real merit of their own, and an intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	aesthetic	aesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | this little texts | a real merit of butterflies's own |  |  |  | a intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient |

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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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