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title: The proverb is best explained by the accompanying drawings, which wi… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The proverb is best explained by the accompanying drawings, which will serve to give an idea of the commoner representations of both divinities. Who acts: accompanying drawings. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its d
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 210

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The proverb is best explained by the accompanying drawings, which will serve to give an idea of the commoner representations of both divinities.

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**Who acts:** accompanying drawings · **What happens:** explain, accompany, serve, give, represent · **To what, where:** proverb, idea, divinities

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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 (accompanying drawings), 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:pg8128:24:211
# text = The proverb is best explained by the accompanying drawings, which will serve to give an idea of the commoner representations of both divinities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	commoner	common	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	representations	representation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	divinities	divinity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the accompanying drawings | the proverb |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serve** | future | the accompanying drawings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | the accompanying drawings *not said here* | a idea of the commoner representations of both divinities |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 5 | **represent** |  |  | both divinities |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition 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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