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title: But in Japanese folklore the _Ma_ have a part much resembling that o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But in Japanese folklore the _Ma_ have a part much resembling that occupied in Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies. 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 cla
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 178

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But in Japanese folklore the \_Ma\_ have a part much resembling that occupied in Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies.

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**What happens:** have, resemble · **To what, where:** part, Japanese folklore, Western popular superstition

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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:pg8128:25:178
# text = But in Japanese folklore the _Ma_ have a part much resembling that occupied in Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ma	Ma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | a part |  | Japanese folklore |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 2 | **resemble** | gerund |  |  |  | Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies |  | occupied *property* | tree rules |

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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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