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title: In Japanese drama and romance it is not uncommon to represent a fath… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Japanese drama and romance it is not uncommon to represent a father as disowning his child “for the time of seven lives.” Who acts: romance. 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 121

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In Japanese drama and romance it is not uncommon to represent a father as disowning his child “for the time of seven lives.”

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**Who acts:** romance · **What happens:** not be, represent, disown · **To what, where:** Japanese drama, father, child

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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 (romance), 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:pg8128:5:122
# text = In Japanese drama and romance it is not uncommon to represent a father as disowning his child “for the time of seven lives.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	disowning	disown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | romance | Japanese drama and romance *not said here* |  |  |  | uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | to-infinitive | romance *not said here* | a father |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=Theme |
| 3 | **disown** | gerund | romance *not said here* | father's child |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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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