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title: [29] The _iwashi_ is a very small fish, much resembling a sardine. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [29] The _iwashi_ is a very small fish, much resembling a sardine. Who acts: 29, small fish. 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 171

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\[29\] The \_iwashi\_ is a very small fish, much resembling a sardine.

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**Who acts:** 29, small fish · **What happens:** be, resemble · **To what, where:** small fish, sardine

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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 (29, small fish), 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:pg8128:24:172
# text = [29] The _iwashi_ is a very small fish, much resembling a sardine.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	iwashi	iwashi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sardine	sardine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 29 | a small fish |  |  |  | the iwashi \_ *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | gerund | a small fish *not said here* | a sardine |  |  |  |  | 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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