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title: [24] A common saying among the lower classes in reference to an unfo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [24] A common saying among the lower classes in reference to an unfortunate or crippled child. 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 145

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\[24\] A common saying among the lower classes in reference to an unfortunate or crippled child.

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**To what, where:** 24

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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:pg8128:24:146
# text = [24] A common saying among the lower classes in reference to an unfortunate or crippled child.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	crippled	crippled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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