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title: [19] This is a short popular form of the longer proverb, _Hotoké no… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [19] This is a short popular form of the longer proverb, _Hotoké no kao mo sando nazuréba, hara wo tatsu:_ “Stroke even the face of a Buddha three times, and his anger will be roused.” Who acts: This, Stroke. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 122

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\[19\] This is a short popular form of the longer proverb, \_Hotoké no kao mo sando nazuréba, hara wo tatsu:\_ “Stroke even the face of a Buddha three times, and his anger will be roused.”

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**Who acts:** This, Stroke · **What happens:** be, face, rouse, anger · **To what, where:** short popular form, anger, form tatsu

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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 (This, Stroke), 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:pg8128:24:123
# text = [19] This is a short popular form of the longer proverb, _Hotoké no kao mo sando nazuréba, hara wo tatsu:_ “Stroke even the face of a Buddha three times, and his anger will be roused.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	19	19	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hotoké	Hotoké	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
18	kao	kao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sando	sando	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nazuréba	nazuréba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	hara	hara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tatsu	tatsu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a short popular form |  |  |  | of the longer proverb and hara; 19 *discourse* | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** *in a quote* |  | Stroke |  |  |  | time | of a Buddha | tree rules |
| 3 | **rouse** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | Stroke's anger |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **anger** *in a quote* |  | Stroke |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling 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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