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title: A saying of like meaning is,_ Hiza to mo dankō:_ “Consult even with… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: A saying of like meaning is,_ Hiza to mo dankō:_ “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it. Who acts: saying, that. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, with i
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 149

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A saying of like meaning is,\_ Hiza to mo dankō:\_ “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it.

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**Who acts:** saying, that · **What happens:** be, consult, despise, say · **To what, where:** Hiza, advice, meaning · **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 (saying, 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:pg8128:25:149
# text = A saying of like meaning is,_ Hiza to mo dankō:_ “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Hiza	Hiza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dankō	dankō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Consult	consult	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:outer	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
36	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a saying of meaning | Hiza |  |  |  | to mo dankō | tree rules |
| 2 | **consult** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your own knee | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with knee=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **despise** | infinitive | that *not said here* | no advice |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** |  |  | meaning |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication 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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