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title: _ According to our doctrine, the saying would be as true of life in… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _ According to our doctrine, the saying would be as true of life in heaven as of life upon earth…. Who acts: saying, our. 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 94

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\_ According to our doctrine, the saying would be as true of life in heaven as of life upon earth….

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**Who acts:** saying, our · **What happens:** accord, be, indoctrinate

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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 (saying, our), 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:pg8128:4:94
# text = _ According to our doctrine, the saying would be as true of life in heaven as of life upon earth….
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	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 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | the saying |  |  |  |  | of life in heaven; as life; upon earth; true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **indoctrinate** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: 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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