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title: [75] This curious saying is the only one in my collection containing… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [75] This curious saying is the only one in my collection containing the word _Nehan_ (Nirvâna), and is here inserted chiefly for that reason. Who acts: 75, collection. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, with its dependency
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 215

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\[75\] This curious saying is the only one in my collection containing the word \_Nehan\_ (Nirvâna), and is here inserted chiefly for that reason.

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**Who acts:** 75, collection · **What happens:** be, contain, insert · **To what, where:** only one, collection, word

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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 (75, collection), 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:pg8128:25:215
# text = [75] This curious saying is the only one in my collection containing the word _Nehan_ (Nirvâna), and is here inserted chiefly for that reason.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Nehan	Nehan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Nirvâna	Nirvâna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
28	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 75 | the only one |  | my collection |  | this curious saying *nsubj*; Nehan *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | my collection *not said here* | the word |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme |
| 3 | **insert** | present · passive | 75 *not said here* |  |  | here |  | for that reason; chiefly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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