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title: And what of the person able, through knowledge and practice of the h… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And what of the person able, through knowledge and practice of the higher law, to remain superior to all weaknesses of sex?” 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 22

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And what of the person able, through knowledge and practice of the higher law, to remain superior to all weaknesses of sex?”

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**What happens:** remain, practice · **To what, where:** higher law

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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: 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:pg8128:26:22
# text = And what of the person able, through knowledge and practice of the higher law, to remain superior to all weaknesses of sex?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	remain	remain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | superior *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **practice** |  |  | the higher law |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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