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title: [77] A very common saying,—often uttered as a comment upon the unhap… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [77] A very common saying,—often uttered as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation, upon sudden misfortune, upon sudden death, etc. It is used especially in relation to _shinjū_, or lovers’ suicide. Who acts: sudden death. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening A
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 225

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\[77\] A very common saying,—often uttered as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation, upon sudden misfortune, upon sudden death, etc. It is used especially in relation to \_shinjū\_, or lovers’ suicide.

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**Who acts:** sudden death · **What happens:** utter, use · **To what, where:** etc., relation, common saying

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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 (sudden death), 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:pg8128:25:225
# text = [77] A very common saying,—often uttered as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation, upon sudden misfortune, upon sudden death, etc. It is used especially in relation to _shinjū_, or lovers’ suicide.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	77	77	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	shinjū	shinjū	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a comment upon the unhappiness of separation; upon sudden misfortune; sudden death *parataxis*; often *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive | sudden death *not said here* | etc. |  | relation |  | to shinjū | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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