--- title: Also they tell us not to trouble ourselves about the fact that we se… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: Also they tell us not to trouble ourselves about the fact that we see no Psyché-imago detach itself from the broken cocoon: this lack of visual evidence signifies nothing, because we have only the purblind vision of grubs. Who acts: faiths, we, Psyché imago, lack. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faiths, we, Psyché imago, lack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:4:53 # text = Also they tell us not to trouble ourselves about the fact that we see no Psyché-imago detach itself from the broken cocoon: this lack of visual evidence signifies nothing, because we have only the purblind vision of grubs. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 nmod _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 16 Psyché Psyché PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 imago imago NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 detach detach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 20 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 cocoon cocoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 visual visual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 signifies signify VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 32 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 purblind purblind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | faiths *= faith* | trouble ourselves | us | | | about the fact | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient trouble=Topic | | 2 | **see** | present | we | the fact *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **detach** | present | no Psyché imago | imago | | | | from the broken cocoon | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient from cocoon=Co-Patient | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **signify** | present | this lack of visual evidence | nothing | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | we | the purblind vision of grubs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | | 7 | **lack** | | | visual evidence | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/54/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/)