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title: The people, too, are the people of Old Japan: frank and kindly as ch… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The people, too, are the people of Old Japan: frank and kindly as children—good children,—honest to a fault, innocent of the further world, loyal to the ancient traditions and the ancient gods. Who acts: people. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its depend
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 84

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The people, too, are the people of Old Japan: frank and kindly as children—good children,—honest to a fault, innocent of the further world, loyal to the ancient traditions and the ancient gods.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** people

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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 (people), 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:pg8128:27:85
# text = The people, too, are the people of Old Japan: frank and kindly as children—good children,—honest to a fault, innocent of the further world, loyal to the ancient traditions and the ancient gods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	frank	frank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the people | the people and good children |  |  |  | of Old Japan; frank and children *parataxis*; good children *conj* | tree rules |

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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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