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title: Some humanity higher than our own,—in other worlds,—might be thus ev… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some humanity higher than our own,—in other worlds,—might be thus evolved.” 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 34

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Some humanity higher than our own,—in other worlds,—might be thus evolved.”

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** humanity

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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:pg8128:26:34
# text = Some humanity higher than our own,—in other worlds,—might be thus evolved.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | evolve, thus *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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