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title: ‘Oh, Master!’ exclaimed Nanda, ‘how can a lovely woman be compared w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, Master!’ exclaimed Nanda, ‘how can a lovely woman be compared with an ugly ape?’ 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 98

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‘Oh, Master!’ exclaimed Nanda, ‘how can a lovely woman be compared with an ugly ape?’

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**What happens:** exclaim, compare · **To what, where:** Nanda, lovely woman

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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: 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:pg8128:4:98
# text = ‘Oh, Master!’ exclaimed Nanda, ‘how can a lovely woman be compared with an ugly ape?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Nanda	Nanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | Nanda |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nanda=Topic |
| 2 | **compare** | can · passive |  | a lovely woman |  |  |  | with a ugly ape | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ape=Co-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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