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title: _ [First] see the person, [then] preach the doctrine. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ [First] see the person, [then] preach the doctrine. Who acts: you. 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 85

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\_ \[First\] see the person, \[then\] preach the doctrine.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, preach · **To what, where:** person, doctrine

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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 (you), 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:pg8128:25:85
# text = _ [First] see the person, [then] preach the doctrine.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	preach	preach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the doctrine |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic |

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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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