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title: From the evolutional point of view the question has interest; and it… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: From the evolutional point of view the question has interest; and its obvious answer was suggested to me by the history of those silkworms,—which have been domesticated for only a few thousand years. Who acts: question, history. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Us
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 58

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From the evolutional point of view the question has interest; and its obvious answer was suggested to me by the history of those silkworms,—which have been domesticated for only a few thousand years.

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**Who acts:** question, history · **What happens:** have, suggest, domesticate, point, answer · **To what, where:** interest, evolutional point, obvious answer, me, view

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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 (question, history), 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:pg8128:4:58
# text = From the evolutional point of view the question has interest; and its obvious answer was suggested to me by the history of those silkworms,—which have been domesticated for only a few thousand years.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	evolutional	evolutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the question | interest |  | the evolutional point of view |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past · passive | the history of that silkworms | question's obvious answer | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **domesticate** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | year | which *nsubj:pass* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | view |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **answer** |  | question |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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