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title: And I beg of you always to cherish our dear lord: never allow anothe… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And I beg of you always to cherish our dear lord: never allow another woman to rob you of his affection…. Who acts: I, you. 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 72

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And I beg of you always to cherish our dear lord: never allow another woman to rob you of his affection….

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** beg, cherish, not allow, rob · **To what, where:** dear lord, woman, you · **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 (I, you), 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:pg8128:26:72
# text = And I beg of you always to cherish our dear lord: never allow another woman to rob you of his affection….
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cherish	cherish	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cherish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you | our dear lord |  |  |  | always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | another woman |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **rob** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | of Yukiko's affection | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme of affection=Source |

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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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