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title: “Your theory is interesting,” I said;—“but I do not know how far it… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your theory is interesting,” I said;—“but I do not know how far it could be made to accord with accepted doctrine…. Who acts: theory, I. 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 eve
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 21

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“Your theory is interesting,” I said;—“but I do not know how far it could be made to accord with accepted doctrine….

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**Who acts:** theory, I · **What happens:** be, say, not know, make, accord, accept · **To what, where:** theory · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (theory, I), 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:pg8128:26:21
# text = “Your theory is interesting,” I said;—“but I do not know how far it could be made to accord with accepted doctrine….
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	accord	accord	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your theory |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | could · passive |  | theory |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **accord** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | theory *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with accepted doctrine | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accept** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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