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title: These were the highest class of samurai,—not only as the immediate v… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: These were the highest class of samurai,—not only as the immediate vassals of the Shōgun, but as a military aristocracy. Who acts: These. 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 16

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These were the highest class of samurai,—not only as the immediate vassals of the Shōgun, but as a military aristocracy.

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** highest class

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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 (These), 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:pg8128:5:16
# text = These were the highest class of samurai,—not only as the immediate vassals of the Shōgun, but as a military aristocracy.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	vassals	vassal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Shōgun	Shōgun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	aristocracy	aristocracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | These | the highest class and the immediate vassals of the Shōgun but a military aristocracy |  |  |  | of samurai; the immediate vassals of the Shōgun but a military aristocracy *conj* | 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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