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title: “But the doctrine that desire is creative does not imply that the in… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “But the doctrine that desire is creative does not imply that the individual longing creates its own satisfaction,—quite the contrary. Who acts: doctrine, individual longing, longing. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 10

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“But the doctrine that desire is creative does not imply that the individual longing creates its own satisfaction,—quite the contrary.

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**Who acts:** doctrine, individual longing, longing · **What happens:** be, not imply, create, satisfy · **To what, where:** doctrine, own satisfaction

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctrine, individual longing, longing), 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:pg8128:26:10
# text = “But the doctrine that desire is creative does not imply that the individual longing creates its own satisfaction,—quite the contrary.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	det	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
8	creative	creative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	imply	imply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	creates	create	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the doctrine |  |  |  | that desire *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **imply** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the doctrine |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **create** *in a quote* | present | the individual longing | longing's own satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Result |
| 4 | **satisfy** *in a quote* |  | longing |  |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=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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