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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 59

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Consider the result of our celestial domestication for—let us say—several millions of years: I mean the final consequence, to the wishers, of being able to gratify every wish at will.

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**Who acts:** you, us, I · **What happens:** consider, let, say, mean, be, gratify · **To what, where:** result, us, several millions, final consequence, wish, celestial domestication · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, us, I), 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:pg8128:4:59
# text = Consider the result of our celestial domestication for—let us say—several millions of years: I mean the final consequence, to the wishers, of being able to gratify every wish at will.
1	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	domestication	domestication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wishers	wisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	gratify	gratify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* | the result of our celestial domestication |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent result=Attribute |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | us *not said here* | several millions of years |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent million=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | I | the final consequence and the wishers |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gratify** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | every wish |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer |
| 7 | **result** |  |  | our celestial domestication |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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