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title: Come a little closer,—so that you can hear me well: I am not able to… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Come a little closer,—so that you can hear me well: I am not able to speak loud…. Who acts: you, I. 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 68

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Come a little closer,—so that you can hear me well: I am not able to speak loud….

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** come, hear, not be, speak · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I), 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:pg8128:26:68
# text = Come a little closer,—so that you can hear me well: I am not able to speak loud….
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | can | you | me |  |  |  | well *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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