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title: “There is no fence,” “no neighborhood,”—that is to say, no limit bey… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is no fence,” “no neighborhood,”—that is to say, no limit beyond which to escape,—no middle-path between any two of these states. Who acts: that. 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 pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 137

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“There is no fence,” “no neighborhood,”—that is to say, no limit beyond which to escape,—no middle-path between any two of these states.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be, escape · **To what, where:** neighborhood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that), 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:pg8128:25:137
# text = “There is no fence,” “no neighborhood,”—that is to say, no limit beyond which to escape,—no middle-path between any two of these states.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
28	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no neighborhood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | that |  |  |  |  | no limit *obj*; no middle path between any two states *parataxis*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beyond no limit | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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