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title: Above all things else, excepting life, man desires woman, and woman… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Above all things else, excepting life, man desires woman, and woman man. Who acts: man. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, 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 3, sentence 15

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Above all things else, excepting life, man desires woman, and woman man.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** except, desire · **To what, where:** woman, things

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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 (man), 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:pg8128:26:15
# text = Above all things else, excepting life, man desires woman, and woman man.
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | present | man | woman |  | all things and excepting life |  | woman man *conj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme |

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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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