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title: [13] The common people often use the curious expression “_gosho-daij… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [13] The common people often use the curious expression “_gosho-daiji_” as an equivalent for “extremely important.” Who acts: 13 common people. 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 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 88

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\[13\] The common people often use the curious expression “\_gosho-daiji\_” as an equivalent for “extremely important.”

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**Who acts:** 13 common people · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** curious expression

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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 (13 common people), 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:pg8128:24:89
# text = [13] The common people often use the curious expression “_gosho-daiji_” as an equivalent for “extremely important.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	gosho	gosho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	daiji	daiji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | the 13 common people | the curious expression |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=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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