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title: _ Even a devil, when you become accustomed to the sight of him, may… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Even a devil, when you become accustomed to the sight of him, may prove a pleasant acquaintance. Who acts: you, devil. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, 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 2, sentence 102

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\_ Even a devil, when you become accustomed to the sight of him, may prove a pleasant acquaintance.

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**Who acts:** you, devil · **What happens:** become, accustom, prove, sight · **To what, where:** pleasant acquaintance, devil

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, devil), 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:pg8128:25:102
# text = _ Even a devil, when you become accustomed to the sight of him, may prove a pleasant acquaintance.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accustom** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sight of devil | tree rules |
| 3 | **prove** | may | a devil | a pleasant acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | devil |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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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