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title: My mistress has been constantly repeating the _Nembutsu_ for your sa… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: My mistress has been constantly repeating the _Nembutsu_ for your sake. Who acts: mistress. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 110

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My mistress has been constantly repeating the \_Nembutsu\_ for your sake.

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**Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** repeat · **To what, where:** \_ Nembutsu

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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:pg8128:5:111
# text = My mistress has been constantly repeating the _Nembutsu_ for your sake.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
5	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Nembutsu	Nembutsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present · perfect · progressive | My mistress | the \_ Nembutsu |  |  |  | for your sake; constantly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Eventuality |

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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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