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title: “Such a one might be reborn in a world of desire,—like this,—but nei… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Such a one might be reborn in a world of desire,—like this,—but neither as man only, nor as woman only.” Who acts: one. 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 27

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“Such a one might be reborn in a world of desire,—like this,—but neither as man only, nor as woman only.”

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** world

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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 (one), 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:pg8128:26:27
# text = “Such a one might be reborn in a world of desire,—like this,—but neither as man only, nor as woman only.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	reborn	reborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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* | might | such one |  |  | a world of desire |  | like this; man *conj*; woman *conj*; reborn *property* | tree rules |

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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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