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title: Even so the butterfly-man exists,—although, as a matter of course, w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even so the butterfly-man exists,—although, as a matter of course, we cannot see him. Who acts: butterfly man, we. 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 56

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Even so the butterfly-man exists,—although, as a matter of course, we cannot see him.

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**Who acts:** butterfly man, we · **What happens:** exist, not see · **To what, where:** man

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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 (butterfly man, we), 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:pg8128:4:56
# text = Even so the butterfly-man exists,—although, as a matter of course, we cannot see him.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | the butterfly man |  |  |  |  | as a matter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | we | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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