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title: There is another proverb of the same kind,—_Ki ni yorité, hō wo toké… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: There is another proverb of the same kind,—_Ki ni yorité, hō wo toké:_ “According to the understanding [of the person to be taught], preach the Law.” Who acts: proverb. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, with its dependency
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 88

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There is another proverb of the same kind,—\_Ki ni yorité, hō wo toké:\_ “According to the understanding \[of the person to be taught\], preach the Law.”

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**Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** be, accord, teach, preach · **To what, where:** Law

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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 (proverb), 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:pg8128:25:88
# text = There is another proverb of the same kind,—_Ki ni yorité, hō wo toké:_ “According to the understanding [of the person to be taught], preach the Law.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	yorité	yorité	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	hō	hō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	toké	toké	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
35	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | another proverb of the same kind |  |  | there |  | ni yorité *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **preach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | another proverb of the same kind *not said here* | the Law |  |  |  | accord the understanding | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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