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title: [26] A saying very commonly used in speaking of the attachment of lo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [26] A saying very commonly used in speaking of the attachment of lovers, or of the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons. 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 pragmati
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 156

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\[26\] A saying very commonly used in speaking of the attachment of lovers, or of the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons.

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**What happens:** use, speak, attach, result · **To what, where:** saying, speaking, 26, attachment, lovers, close relation · **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: 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:pg8128:24:157
# text = [26] A saying very commonly used in speaking of the attachment of lovers, or of the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	speaking	speaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a saying *not said here* |  | speaking of the attachment of lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons |  | commonly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** |  |  | the attachment of lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons |  |  |  |  | nom speaking «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **attach** |  |  | lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons |  |  |  |  | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | any close relation between two persons |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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