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title: [28] Literally, “has a soul of five _bu_,”—five _bu_ being equal to… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [28] Literally, “has a soul of five _bu_,”—five _bu_ being equal to half of the Japanese inch. 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 165

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\[28\] Literally, “has a soul of five \_bu\_,”—five \_bu\_ being equal to half of the Japanese inch.

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**What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** soul, 28

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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:pg8128:24:166
# text = [28] Literally, “has a soul of five _bu_,”—five _bu_ being equal to half of the Japanese inch.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bu	Bu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bu	Bu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a soul of five |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to half of the Japanese inch; equal *property* | 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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