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title: “Nay, nay!” returned the wife, huskily,—“this is not a time for word… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nay, nay!” returned the wife, huskily,—“this is not a time for words of ceremony: let us speak only the truth to each other. Who acts: this, us. 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 pragmatic
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 77

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“Nay, nay!” returned the wife, huskily,—“this is not a time for words of ceremony: let us speak only the truth to each other.

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**Who acts:** this, us · **What happens:** return, not be, let, speak, word · **To what, where:** wife, time, us, truth, ceremony · **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 (this, us), 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:pg8128:26:77
# text = “Nay, nay!” returned the wife, huskily,—“this is not a time for words of ceremony: let us speak only the truth to each other.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	huskily	huskily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nmod	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past |  | the wife |  |  |  | huskily *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a time |  |  |  | for words of ceremony | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | this *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  | to each | tree rules |
| 5 | **word** *in a quote* |  |  | ceremony |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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