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title: Imagine the result of knowing that there must happen to you, within… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine the result of knowing that there must happen to you, within the next two months, some terrible misfortune which you cannot possibly provide against! Who acts: you, result. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 86

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Imagine the result of knowing that there must happen to you, within the next two months, some terrible misfortune which you cannot possibly provide against!

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**Who acts:** you, result · **What happens:** imagine, know, happen, not provide · **To what, where:** result, you, terrible misfortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, result), 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:pg8128:3:88
# text = Imagine the result of knowing that there must happen to you, within the next two months, some terrible misfortune which you cannot possibly provide against!
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the result |  |  | month |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot result=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | the result *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **happen** | must |  |  | you | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **provide** | can | you | some terrible misfortune |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition which=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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