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title: _ Even a worm an inch long has a soul half-an-inch long. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Even a worm an inch long has a soul half-an-inch long. Who acts: inch, soul. 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 163

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\_ Even a worm an inch long has a soul half-an-inch long.

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**Who acts:** inch, soul · **What happens:** have, inch · **To what, where:** worm

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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 (inch, soul), 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:pg8128:24:164
# text = _ Even a worm an inch long has a soul half-an-inch long.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a inch | a worm *not said here* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient |
| 2 | **inch** |  | soul |  |  |  |  | half *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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