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title: A proverb of like meaning is, _Bonnō no inu oëdomo sarazu:_ “Though… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: A proverb of like meaning is, _Bonnō no inu oëdomo sarazu:_ “Though driven away, the Dog of Lust cannot be kept from coming back again.” Who acts: proverb. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 114

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A proverb of like meaning is, \_Bonnō no inu oëdomo sarazu:\_ “Though driven away, the Dog of Lust cannot be kept from coming back again.”

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**Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** be, drive away, not keep, come back · **To what, where:** inu oëdomo, Dog

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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 (proverb), 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:pg8128:24:115
# text = A proverb of like meaning is, _Bonnō no inu oëdomo sarazu:_ “Though driven away, the Dog of Lust cannot be kept from coming back again.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Bonnō	Bonnō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	inu	inu	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
12	oëdomo	oëdomo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	sarazu	sarazu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Though	though	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lust	Lust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
29	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a proverb of meaning | no inu oëdomo |  |  |  | Bonnō *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive away** *in a quote* | participle |  | no inu oëdomo *not said here* |  |  |  | away, though *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | the Dog of Lust |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **come back** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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