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title: Accordingly, with the help of a Japanese friend, I have selected and… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, with the help of a Japanese friend, I have selected and translated the following series of examples,—choosing the more simple and familiar where choice was possible, and placing the originals in alphabetical order to facilitate reference. Who acts: I, choice. A sentence of «In Ghostly J
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 21

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Accordingly, with the help of a Japanese friend, I have selected and translated the following series of examples,—choosing the more simple and familiar where choice was possible, and placing the originals in alphabetical order to facilitate reference.

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**Who acts:** I, choice · **What happens:** select, translate, follow, choose, be, place · **To what, where:** following series, simple, originals, alphabetical order, reference, Japanese friend

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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 (I, choice), 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:pg8128:24:22
# text = Accordingly, with the help of a Japanese friend, I have selected and translated the following series of examples,—choosing the more simple and familiar where choice was possible, and placing the originals in alphabetical order to facilitate reference.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
43	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with the help of a Japanese friend; accordingly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **translate** | past | I *not said here* | the following series of examples |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | gerund | I *not said here* | the simple |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simple=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | choice |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **place** | gerund | I *not said here* | the originals |  | alphabetical order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent original=Theme in order=Destination |
| 7 | **facilitate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | reference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **help** |  |  | a Japanese friend |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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