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title: And we should foolishly deem ourselves fortunate to be equally well… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And we should foolishly deem ourselves fortunate to be equally well cared-for in proportion to our more complex wants. Who acts: we, proportion. 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 69

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And we should foolishly deem ourselves fortunate to be equally well cared-for in proportion to our more complex wants.

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**Who acts:** we, proportion · **What happens:** deem, care, want · **To what, where:** ourselves

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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 (we, proportion), 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:pg8128:4:69
# text = And we should foolishly deem ourselves fortunate to be equally well cared-for in proportion to our more complex wants.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	deem	deem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	complex	complex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deem** | should | we | ourselves |  |  |  | foolishly, fortunate *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ourselves=Attribute |
| 2 | **care** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for proportion; equally, well *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: for proportion=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | proportion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to our more complex | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to complex=Attribute |

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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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