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title: Do not whole scales of colors invisibly exist above and below the li… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not whole scales of colors invisibly exist above and below the limits of our retinal sensibility? Who acts: whole scales. 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 55

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Do not whole scales of colors invisibly exist above and below the limits of our retinal sensibility?

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**Who acts:** whole scales · **What happens:** exist

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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 (whole scales), 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:pg8128:4:55
# text = Do not whole scales of colors invisibly exist above and below the limits of our retinal sensibility?
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	invisibly	invisibly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	below	below	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	retinal	retinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sensibility	sensibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | infinitive · do-support | whole scales of colors |  |  |  |  | above, invisibly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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