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title: As representing that general quality of moral experience which remai… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: As representing that general quality of moral experience which remains almost unaffected by social modifications of any sort, the proverbial sayings of a people must always possess a special psychological interest for thinkers. Who acts: proverbial sayings, moral experience. A sentence of «In Ghostl
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 17

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As representing that general quality of moral experience which remains almost unaffected by social modifications of any sort, the proverbial sayings of a people must always possess a special psychological interest for thinkers.

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**Who acts:** proverbial sayings, moral experience · **What happens:** represent, remain, possess, modify, say · **To what, where:** general quality, special psychological interest, sort, people · **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 (proverbial sayings, moral experience), 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:pg8128:24:18
# text = As representing that general quality of moral experience which remains almost unaffected by social modifications of any sort, the proverbial sayings of a people must always possess a special psychological interest for thinkers.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	modifications	modification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	proverbial	proverbial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	psychological	psychological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thinkers	thinker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | gerund | the proverbial sayings of a people *not said here* | general quality of moral experience |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | present | moral experience |  |  |  |  | unaffected *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | must | the proverbial sayings of a people | a special psychological interest |  |  |  | for thinkers; always *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot interest=Theme |
| 4 | **modify** |  |  | any sort |  |  |  |  | nom modification «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **say** |  |  | a people |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication 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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