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title: [51] Death and Change do not conform their ways to human expectation. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [51] Death and Change do not conform their ways to human expectation. Who acts: 51. 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 72

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\[51\] Death and Change do not conform their ways to human expectation.

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**Who acts:** 51 · **What happens:** not conform · **To what, where:** ways, human expectation

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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 (51), 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:pg8128:25:72
# text = [51] Death and Change do not conform their ways to human expectation.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Change	Change	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	conform	conform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **conform** | present · do-support | 51 | students's ways |  |  |  | to human expectation *goal*; Death and Change *nsubj* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent way=Patient to expectation=Goal |

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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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