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title: In a silkworm-paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desi… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In a silkworm-paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub…. Who acts: mundane instincts, us, seraph. A sentence of «In Ghostly
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 89

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In a silkworm-paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub….

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**Who acts:** mundane instincts, us, seraph · **What happens:** lead, desire, free, satisfy, lose, sink back · **To what, where:** us, silkworm paradise, necessity, want, wings, last

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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 (mundane instincts, us, seraph), 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:pg8128:4:89
# text = In a silkworm-paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub….
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mundane	mundane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	seraph	seraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	sink	sink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
44	back	back	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | our mundane instincts | us |  | a silkworm paradise |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **desire** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **free** | past | the seraph |  |  | the necessity of toil |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive | the seraph *not said here* | seraph's want |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus want=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lose** | would | the seraph *not said here* | seraph's wings |  | last |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sink back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the condition of a grub | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **want** |  | seraph |  |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **condition** |  |  | a grub |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=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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