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title: A proverb of kindred signification is, _Sumeba, Miyako:_ “Wheresoeve… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: A proverb of kindred signification is, _Sumeba, Miyako:_ “Wheresoever ones home is, that is the Capital [or, imperial City].” Who acts: proverb, that. 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 prag
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 193

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A proverb of kindred signification is, \_Sumeba, Miyako:\_ “Wheresoever ones home is, that is the Capital \[or, imperial City\].”

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**Who acts:** proverb, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Sumeba, ones, Capital

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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 (proverb, that), 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:pg8128:24:194
# text = A proverb of kindred signification is, _Sumeba, Miyako:_ “Wheresoever ones home is, that is the Capital [or, imperial City].”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	signification	signification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Sumeba	Sumeba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Miyako	Miyako	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wheresoever	wheresoever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a proverb of kindred signification | Sumeba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | ones |  |  |  | wheresoever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the Capital |  |  |  | imperial City *appos* | 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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