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title: [20] The popular saying, _Oni no Nembutsu_,—“a devil’s praying,”—has… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [20] The popular saying, _Oni no Nembutsu_,—“a devil’s praying,”—has a similar meaning. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 126

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\[20\] The popular saying, \_Oni no Nembutsu\_,—“a devil’s praying,”—has a similar meaning.

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**What happens:** have · **To what, where:** similar meaning, 20

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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: 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:pg8128:24:127
# text = [20] The popular saying, _Oni no Nembutsu_,—“a devil’s praying,”—has a similar meaning.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Oni	Oni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	Nembutsu	Nembutsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	praying	praying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | a similar meaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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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