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title: Compare with verse 2 of the _Dhammapada_. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Compare with verse 2 of the _Dhammapada_. Who acts: you. 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 200

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Compare with verse 2 of the \_Dhammapada\_.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** compare, verse · **To what, where:** Dhammapada

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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 (you), 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:pg8128:24:201
# text = Compare with verse 2 of the _Dhammapada_.
1	Compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Dhammapada	Dhammapada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with verse of the Dhammapada | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with verse=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **verse** |  |  | the Dhammapada |  |  |  |  | nom verse «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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