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title: He is their providence,—a god of whose existence they can be aware i… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He is their providence,—a god of whose existence they can be aware in only the vaguest possible way, but just such a god as they require. Who acts: majority, worms, god. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 68

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He is their providence,—a god of whose existence they can be aware in only the vaguest possible way, but just such a god as they require.

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**Who acts:** majority, worms, god · **What happens:** be, require, exist · **To what, where:** providence, existence, vaguest possible way

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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 (majority, worms, god), 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:pg8128:4:68
# text = He is their providence,—a god of whose existence they can be aware in only the vaguest possible way, but just such a god as they require.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	providence	providence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	vaguest	vague	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | majority | worms's providence |  |  |  | worms *= worm* *nmod:poss*; a god of a god of a god's existence but such god's existence but such god *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | can | worms *= worm* | a god of a god of existence but such god's existence but such god's existence *not said here* |  | the vaguest possible way |  | aware *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | present | worms *= worm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **exist** |  | a god of a god of existence but such god's existence but such god |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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