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title: [68] Or, “the Pain-Sea of Life and Death.” — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [68] Or, “the Pain-Sea of Life and Death.” 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 171

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\[68\] Or, “the Pain-Sea of Life and Death.”

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**To what, where:** 68

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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:pg8128:25:171
# text = [68] Or, “the Pain-Sea of Life and Death.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	68	68	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Pain	Pain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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