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title: The philosophical beauty of the comparison will be appreciated only… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The philosophical beauty of the comparison will be appreciated only if we bear in mind that even the _tone_ of the echo repeats the tone of the voice. Who acts: we, mind. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 107

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The philosophical beauty of the comparison will be appreciated only if we bear in mind that even the \_tone\_ of the echo repeats the tone of the voice.

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**Who acts:** we, mind · **What happens:** appreciate, bear, repeat, intonate · **To what, where:** philosophical beauty, mind, tone, echo, voice

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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 (we, mind), 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:pg8128:24:108
# text = The philosophical beauty of the comparison will be appreciated only if we bear in mind that even the _tone_ of the echo repeats the tone of the voice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appreciate** | future · passive |  | the philosophical beauty of the comparison |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  | mind |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **repeat** | present | mind | the tone of the voice |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | the echo |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **intonate** |  |  | the voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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