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title: “I am grateful—most grateful—for your kind words…. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am grateful—most grateful—for your kind words…. Who acts: rite, your. 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 59

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“I am grateful—most grateful—for your kind words….

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**Who acts:** rite, your · **What happens:** be, word

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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 (rite, your), 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:pg8128:26:59
# text = “I am grateful—most grateful—for your kind words….
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	4	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* | present | rite |  |  |  |  | for your kind words; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | rite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **word** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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