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description: [16] This proverb is most often used in reference to death,—signifying that all forms go back into the nothingness out of which they spring. Who acts: forms, Proverbs. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 101

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\[16\] This proverb is most often used in reference to death,—signifying that all forms go back into the nothingness out of which they spring.

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**Who acts:** forms, Proverbs · **What happens:** use, signify, go back, spring · **To what, where:** 16, reference, nothingness

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forms, Proverbs), 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:pg8128:24:102
# text = [16] This proverb is most often used in reference to death,—signifying that all forms go back into the nothingness out of which they spring.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nothingness	nothingness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | 16 |  | reference |  | to death; this proverb *nsubj:pass*; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | present | all forms |  |  | the nothingness |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **spring** | present | Proverbs *= proverb* |  |  | the nothingness |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out which=Trajectory |

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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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