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title: Probably they can feel only very weak sensations: they are certainly… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably they can feel only very weak sensations: they are certainly incapable of prayer. Who acts: worms. 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 66

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Probably they can feel only very weak sensations: they are certainly incapable of prayer.

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**Who acts:** worms · **What happens:** feel, be · **To what, where:** weak sensations, incapable

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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 (worms), 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:pg8128:4:66
# text = Probably they can feel only very weak sensations: they are certainly incapable of prayer.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sensations	sensation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	incapable	incapable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | can | worms *= worm* | weak sensations |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | worms *= worm* | incapable |  |  |  | of prayer; certainly *property* | tree rules |

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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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