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title: With equal reasonableness it declares that the capacity for pain in… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: With equal reasonableness it declares that the capacity for pain in the superhuman world increases always in proportion to the capacity for pleasure. Who acts: Paradise, capacity. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 81

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With equal reasonableness it declares that the capacity for pain in the superhuman world increases always in proportion to the capacity for pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Paradise, capacity · **What happens:** declare, increase

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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 (Paradise, capacity), 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:pg8128:4:81
# text = With equal reasonableness it declares that the capacity for pain in the superhuman world increases always in proportion to the capacity for pleasure.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reasonableness	reasonableness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	declares	declare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	superhuman	superhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	increases	increase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | Paradise |  |  |  |  | with equal reasonableness | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **increase** | present | the capacity for pain in the superhuman world |  |  |  |  | to the capacity for pleasure *result*; in proportion; always *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient in proportion=Attribute to capacity=Result |

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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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