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title: But a being complete would be both perfect man and perfect woman, po… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 33

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But a being complete would be both perfect man and perfect woman, possessing the highest faculties of both sexes, with the weaknesses of neither.

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**Who acts:** complete, perfect man · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** perfect man, highest faculties

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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 (complete, perfect 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:pg8128:26:33
# text = But a being complete would be both perfect man and perfect woman, possessing the highest faculties of both sexes, with the weaknesses of neither.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	faculties	faculty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	sexes	sex	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | would | a complete | both perfect man and perfect woman |  |  |  | perfect woman *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | gerund | both perfect man and perfect woman *not said here* | the highest faculties of both sexes |  |  |  | with the weaknesses of neither | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot faculty=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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