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title: Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, fir… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust. Who acts: you, pain, life. 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 79

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Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust.

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**Who acts:** you, pain, life · **What happens:** let, suspend, shrink back · **To what, where:** pain

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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, pain, life), 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:pg8128:4:79
# text = Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	protoplasmic	protoplasmic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shapelessness	shapelessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | pain and pain's effort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suspend** | infinitive · passive | pain and pain's effort *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V» |
| 3 | **shrink back** | must | life |  |  |  |  | protoplasmic shapelessness and dust *parataxis* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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