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title: [52] Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the _mamushi_… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [52] Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the _mamushi_ (a poisonous viper) failed to weep for the death of the Buddha. Who acts: cat, Buddha. 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 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 76

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\[52\] Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the \_mamushi\_ (a poisonous viper) failed to weep for the death of the Buddha.

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**Who acts:** cat, Buddha · **What happens:** notwithstand, fail, not weep, die · **To what, where:** legend, 52

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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 (cat, Buddha), 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:pg8128:25:76
# text = [52] Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the _mamushi_ (a poisonous viper) failed to weep for the death of the Buddha.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	mamushi	mamushi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	viper	viper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the cat and the mamushi | the legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **weep** | to-infinitive | the cat and the mamushi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the death of the Buddha | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** |  | the Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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