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title: His image in the temples is usually gilded from head to foot.—There… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: His image in the temples is usually gilded from head to foot.—There are many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth,—such as _Jigoku no sata mo kané shidai:_ “Even the Judgments of Hell may be influenced by money.” Who acts: many other ironical proverbs, money, Amitâbha. A sentence of «In
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 205

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His image in the temples is usually gilded from head to foot.—There are many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth,—such as \_Jigoku no sata mo kané shidai:\_ “Even the Judgments of Hell may be influenced by money.”

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**Who acts:** many other ironical proverbs, money, Amitâbha · **What happens:** gild, be, influence, image · **To what, where:** image, head, Judgments, temples

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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 (many other ironical proverbs, money, Amitâbha), 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:pg8128:24:206
# text = His image in the temples is usually gilded from head to foot.—There are many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth,—such as _Jigoku no sata mo kané shidai:_ “Even the Judgments of Hell may be influenced by money.”
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ironical	ironical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Jigoku	Jigoku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
33	sata	sata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	kané	kané	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	shidai	shidai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	47	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Judgments	Judgment	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | present · passive |  | Amitâbha's image in the temples |  | head |  | to foot; usually *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **does** | present | many other ironical proverbs about the power of wealth |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **influence** *in a quote* | may · passive | money | the Judgments of Hell |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **image** |  | Amitâbha |  |  | the temples |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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