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title: It signifies that any life, however small or mean, is entitled to me… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It signifies that any life, however small or mean, is entitled to mercy. Who acts: use. 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 168

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It signifies that any life, however small or mean, is entitled to mercy.

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**Who acts:** use · **What happens:** signify, entitle · **To what, where:** life

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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 (use), 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:pg8128:24:169
# text = It signifies that any life, however small or mean, is entitled to mercy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | use |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **entitle** | present · passive |  | any life |  |  |  | to mercy | 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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