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title: The common people seldom speak of _Nehan_, and have little knowledge… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The common people seldom speak of _Nehan_, and have little knowledge of those profound doctrines to which the term is related. Who acts: common people, term. 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 t
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 216

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The common people seldom speak of \_Nehan\_, and have little knowledge of those profound doctrines to which the term is related.

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**Who acts:** common people, term · **What happens:** speak, have, be · **To what, where:** little knowledge · **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 (common people, term), 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:pg8128:25:216
# text = The common people seldom speak of _Nehan_, and have little knowledge of those profound doctrines to which the term is related.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Nehan	Nehan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the common people |  |  |  |  | Nehan *parataxis*; seldom *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the common people *not said here* | little knowledge of that profound doctrines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the term |  |  |  |  | to that profound doctrines; related *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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