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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 205

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Such a device is justified especially by the famous parable of the third chapter of the \_Saddharma Pundarîka\_.

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**Who acts:** famous parable · **What happens:** justify · **To what, where:** device

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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 (famous parable), 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:pg8128:25:205
# text = Such a device is justified especially by the famous parable of the third chapter of the _Saddharma Pundarîka_.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	justified	justify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Saddharma	Saddharma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Pundarîka	Pundarîka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **justify** *speech: other* | present · passive | the famous parable of the third chapter of the Saddharma Pundarîka | such device |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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