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title: And the insatiable desire represented by this ideal would of itself… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And the insatiable desire represented by this ideal would of itself suffice to create the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence.” Who acts: insatiable desire. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with its depen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 17

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And the insatiable desire represented by this ideal would of itself suffice to create the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence.”

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**Who acts:** insatiable desire · **What happens:** represent, suffice, create · **To what, where:** insatiable desire, masculine

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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 (insatiable desire), 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:pg8128:26:17
# text = And the insatiable desire represented by this ideal would of itself suffice to create the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	ideal	ideal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
12	suffice	suffice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	masculine	masculine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | participle |  | the insatiable desire *not said here* |  |  |  | by this ideal | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suffice** | would | the insatiable desire |  |  |  |  | of ideal | tree rules |
| 3 | **create** | to-infinitive | the insatiable desire *not said here* | the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent masculine=Result |

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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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