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title: In Buddhist art they are represented as beings of enormous strength,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Buddhist art they are represented as beings of enormous strength, with the heads of bulls and of horses. Who acts: enormous strength. 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 ever
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 99

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In Buddhist art they are represented as beings of enormous strength, with the heads of bulls and of horses.

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**Who acts:** enormous strength · **What happens:** represent, be · **To what, where:** oni, Buddhist art

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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 (enormous strength), 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:pg8128:25:99
# text = In Buddhist art they are represented as beings of enormous strength, with the heads of bulls and of horses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present · passive |  | oni |  | Buddhist art |  | as beings of enormous strength; with the heads of bulls and horses | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as being=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** |  | enormous strength |  |  |  |  |  | nom being «state 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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