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title: _ To inlay ice; to paint upon water. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ To inlay ice; to paint upon water. 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 13

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\_ To inlay ice; to paint upon water.

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**What happens:** inlay, paint · **To what, where:** ice, water

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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: 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:pg8128:25:13
# text = _ To inlay ice; to paint upon water.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	inlay	inlay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inlay** | to-infinitive |  | ice |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ice=Destination |
| 2 | **paint** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | water |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon water=Destination |

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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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