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title: We have done all that we could to get you well,—watching beside you… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: We have done all that we could to get you well,—watching beside you night and day, praying for you, and often fasting for your sake, But in spite of our loving care, and in spite of the skill of our best physicians, it would now seen that the end of your life is not far off. Who acts: We, spite, our
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 54

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We have done all that we could to get you well,—watching beside you night and day, praying for you, and often fasting for your sake, But in spite of our loving care, and in spite of the skill of our best physicians, it would now seen that the end of your life is not far off.

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**Who acts:** We, spite, our · **What happens:** do, get, watch, pray, fast, see · **To what, where:** that, skill, spite, loving care

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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 (We, spite, our), 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:pg8128:26:54
# text = We have done all that we could to get you well,—watching beside you night and day, praying for you, and often fasting for your sake, But in spite of our loving care, and in spite of the skill of our best physicians, it would now seen that the end of your life is not far off.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
32	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	49	amod	_	_
49	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
54	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	xcomp	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	_
63	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	64	advmod	_	_
64	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | could | we | that |  |  |  | you *obj*; well *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary you=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for you | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme |
| 5 | **fast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for your sake; often *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | would · passive | spite of our loving care *not said here* | skill |  | spite of the skill of our best physicians | the end of your life; now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  | spite of our loving care |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | our loving care |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **care** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **spite** |  |  | the skill of our best physicians |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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