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title: Let me conclude this gossip on poetry by citing from another group o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me conclude this gossip on poetry by citing from another group of verses—also pictorial, in a certain sense, but chiefly remarkable for ingenuity—two curiosities of impromptu. Who acts: you, me. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Templ
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 6

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Let me conclude this gossip on poetry by citing from another group of verses—also pictorial, in a certain sense, but chiefly remarkable for ingenuity—two curiosities of impromptu.

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** let, conclude, cite · **To what, where:** me, gossip, poetry, group

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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, me), 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:pg8128:24:6
# text = Let me conclude this gossip on poetry by citing from another group of verses—also pictorial, in a certain sense, but chiefly remarkable for ingenuity—two curiosities of impromptu.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	conclude	conclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	citing	cite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	pictorial	pictorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	appos	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	impromptu	impromptu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conclude** | infinitive | me *not said here* | this gossip |  | poetry |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gossip=Theme |
| 3 | **cite** | gerund | me *not said here* |  |  | another group of verses and pictorial and two curiosities of impromptu |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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