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title: _ Even a devil [is pretty] at eighteen. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Even a devil [is pretty] at eighteen. 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 95

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\_ Even a devil \[is pretty\] at eighteen.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** devil

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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: 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:pg8128:25:95
# text = _ Even a devil [is pretty] at eighteen.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | 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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