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title: [40] Refers to the vanity of selfish effort for some merely temporar… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [40] Refers to the vanity of selfish effort for some merely temporary end. Who acts: 40. 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 15

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\[40\] Refers to the vanity of selfish effort for some merely temporary end.

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**Who acts:** 40 · **What happens:** refer

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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 (40), 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:pg8128:25:15
# text = [40] Refers to the vanity of selfish effort for some merely temporary end.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	selfish	selfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | 40 |  |  |  |  | to the vanity of selfish effort for some temporary end | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to vanity=Co-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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