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title: [42] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [42] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede their spiritual progress—not only in this world, but through all their future states of being,—just as a _kubikasé_, or Japanese cangue, impedes the movements of the person upon whom it is placed. Who acts: love, kubikasé, parents. 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 23

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\[42\] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede their spiritual progress—not only in this world, but through all their future states of being,—just as a \_kubikasé\_, or Japanese cangue, impedes the movements of the person upon whom it is placed.

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**Who acts:** love, kubikasé, parents · **What happens:** be, impede, place, love, progress, move · **To what, where:** spiritual progress, movements, love, parents, person · **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 (love, kubikasé, parents), 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:pg8128:25:23
# text = [42] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede their spiritual progress—not only in this world, but through all their future states of being,—just as a _kubikasé_, or Japanese cangue, impedes the movements of the person upon whom it is placed.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
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	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	impede	impede	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
35	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	kubikasé	kubikasé	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	cangue	cangue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	impedes	impede	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nmod	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  | 42 *obl*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **impede** | may | the love of parents for parents's child | parents's spiritual progress and this world |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | kubikasé |  |  |  |  | of a Japanese cangue | tree rules |
| 4 | **impede** | present |  | the movements of the person upon the movements of the person upon the movements |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer movement=Eventuality |
| 5 | **place** | present · passive |  | love |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **love** |  |  | parents |  |  |  | for parents's child | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
| 7 | **progress** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **move** |  |  | the person upon the movements of the person upon the movements of the person |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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