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title: You well know that I am of poor and mean condition:—how could I ever… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: You well know that I am of poor and mean condition:—how could I ever dare to aspire to become the wife of our lord!” 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 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 76

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You well know that I am of poor and mean condition:—how could I ever dare to aspire to become the wife of our lord!”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** know, be, dare, aspire, become · **To what, where:** wife · **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:pg8128:26:76
# text = You well know that I am of poor and mean condition:—how could I ever dare to aspire to become the wife of our lord!”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	aspire	aspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | mean condition *conj*; poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dare** | could | I |  |  |  | ever |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **aspire** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the wife of our lord |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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