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title: _ Even the head of an _iwashi_, by virtue of faith, [will have power… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Even the head of an _iwashi_, by virtue of faith, [will have power to save, or heal]. Who acts: head. 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 170

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\_ Even the head of an \_iwashi\_, by virtue of faith, \[will have power to save, or heal\].

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** have, save, heal · **To what, where:** power

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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 (head), 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:pg8128:24:171
# text = _ Even the head of an _iwashi_, by virtue of faith, [will have power to save, or heal].
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	iwashi	iwashi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | the head of a iwashi | power |  |  |  | virtue of faith *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | the head of a iwashi *not said here* | power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **heal** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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