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title: While an unfortunate child is spoken of as “a child of _ingwa_,” a v… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: While an unfortunate child is spoken of as “a child of _ingwa_,” a very lucky person is called a “_kwahō-mono_,”—that is to say, an instance, or example of _kwahō_. Who acts: that. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with it
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 148

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While an unfortunate child is spoken of as “a child of \_ingwa\_,” a very lucky person is called a “\_kwahō-mono\_,”—that is to say, an instance, or example of \_kwahō\_.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** speak, call, be, exemplify · **To what, where:** unfortunate child, lucky person, kwahō · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that), 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:pg8128:24:149
# text = While an unfortunate child is spoken of as “a child of _ingwa_,” a very lucky person is called a “_kwahō-mono_,”—that is to say, an instance, or example of _kwahō_.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ingwa	ingwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	kwahō	kwahō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	mono	mono	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj:outer	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	kwahō	kwahō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | a unfortunate child |  |  |  | of a child of ingwa | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a lucky person |  |  |  | a kwahō mono *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | example of kwahō *obl*; a instance *obj*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **exemplify** |  |  | kwahō |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition 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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