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title: A few only of the best are suffered to emerge from their silky sleep… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: A few only of the best are suffered to emerge from their silky sleep,—the selected breeders. Who acts: trays. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 40

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A few only of the best are suffered to emerge from their silky sleep,—the selected breeders.

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**Who acts:** trays · **What happens:** suffer, emerge, select, sleep · **To what, where:** best, selected breeders, silky sleep

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trays), 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:pg8128:4:40
# text = A few only of the best are suffered to emerge from their silky sleep,—the selected breeders.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	breeders	breeder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | present · passive |  | the best |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **emerge** | to-infinitive |  | the selected breeders |  | trays's silky sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **select** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | trays *= tray* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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