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title: _’ or ‘_O thou Blessed One! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _’ or ‘_O thou Blessed One! Who acts: thou. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 36

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\_’ or ‘\_O thou Blessed One!

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** bless · **To what, where:** O

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu\[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg8128:27:36
# text = _’ or ‘_O thou Blessed One!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	O	o	NOUN	NN	_	8	obl	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | thou | O |  |  |  | One *obj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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