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title: But for certain classes of proverbs and proverbial phrases something… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But for certain classes of proverbs and proverbial phrases something can be done within even a few pages; and sayings related to Buddhism, either by allusion or derivation, form a class which seems to me particularly worthy of study. Who acts: class. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hear
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 20

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But for certain classes of proverbs and proverbial phrases something can be done within even a few pages; and sayings related to Buddhism, either by allusion or derivation, form a class which seems to me particularly worthy of study.

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**Who acts:** class · **What happens:** do, form, seem · **To what, where:** sayings, class, me

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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 (class), 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:pg8128:24:21
# text = But for certain classes of proverbs and proverbial phrases something can be done within even a few pages; and sayings related to Buddhism, either by allusion or derivation, form a class which seems to me particularly worthy of study.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	proverbial	proverbial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc:preconj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	derivation	derivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can · passive |  | sayings either allusion or derivation |  |  |  | for certain classes of proverbs  something and proverbial phrases; within a few pages | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **form** | infinitive |  | a class |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location class=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | a class |  | me |  |  | worthy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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