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title: _ The priest who preaches foul doctrine shall be reborn as a fungus. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The priest who preaches foul doctrine shall be reborn as a fungus. Who acts: priest. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 73

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\_ The priest who preaches foul doctrine shall be reborn as a fungus.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** preach, be · **To what, where:** foul doctrine

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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 (priest), 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:pg8128:24:74
# text = _ The priest who preaches foul doctrine shall be reborn as a fungus.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	preaches	preach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	reborn	reborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preach** *speech: other* | present | the priest | foul doctrine |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the priest |  |  |  |  | as a fungus; reborn *property* | tree rules |

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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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