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title: Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will serve to illustrate certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech. Who acts: choice. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its depe
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 22

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Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will serve to illustrate certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech.

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**Who acts:** choice · **What happens:** be, serve, illustrate, effect · **To what, where:** certain effects, Buddhist teaching

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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 (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:pg8128:24:23
# text = Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will serve to illustrate certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	imperfectly	imperfectly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	representative	representative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the selection; imperfectly, representative *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | future | choice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **illustrate** | to-infinitive | choice *not said here* | certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Destination |
| 4 | **effect** |  |  | Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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