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title: Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in p… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in pain; and the condition of those silkworms is the realization, in a small way, of our imagined Paradise. Who acts: dream, condition, Our. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its de
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 63

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Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in pain; and the condition of those silkworms is the realization, in a small way, of our imagined Paradise.

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**Who acts:** dream, condition, Our · **What happens:** be, obtain, imagine, dream, condition · **To what, where:** dream, things, realization, heaven, silkworms

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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 (dream, condition, Our), 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:pg8128:4:63
# text = Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in pain; and the condition of those silkworms is the realization, in a small way, of our imagined Paradise.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	realization	realization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Our dream of heaven | the dream |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | the dream *not said here* | things *= thing* |  |  |  | free *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the condition of that silkworms | the realization and a small way and our imagined Paradise |  |  |  | a small way *conj*; our imagined Paradise *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **imagine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Our | heaven |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 6 | **condition** |  |  | that silkworms |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state 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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