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title: [71] That is to say, “As dangerous as for a clay Buddha to play with… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [71] That is to say, “As dangerous as for a clay Buddha to play with water.” Who acts: 71. 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 188

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\[71\] That is to say, “As dangerous as for a clay Buddha to play with water.”

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**Who acts:** 71 · **What happens:** be, play · **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 (71), 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:pg8128:25:188
# text = [71] That is to say, “As dangerous as for a clay Buddha to play with water.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	As	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | 71 |  |  |  |  | That *nsubj:outer*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | 71 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with water | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with water=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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