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title: The _Meidō_ is the Japanese Hades,—the dark under-world to which all… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Meidō_ is the Japanese Hades,—the dark under-world to which all the dead must journey. Who acts: world. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 51

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The \_Meidō\_ is the Japanese Hades,—the dark under-world to which all the dead must journey.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** be, journey · **To what, where:** Japanese Hades

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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 (world), 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:pg8128:25:51
# text = The _Meidō_ is the Japanese Hades,—the dark under-world to which all the dead must journey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Meidō	Meidō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Japanese Hades |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **journey** | must | world |  |  |  |  |  | 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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