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title: For the spirit of the living is _yōki_, and pure;—the spirit of the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: For the spirit of the living is _yōki_, and pure;—the spirit of the dead is _inki_, and unclean: the one is Positive, the other Negative. Who acts: spirit, one. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 26

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For the spirit of the living is \_yōki\_, and pure;—the spirit of the dead is \_inki\_, and unclean: the one is Positive, the other Negative.

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**Who acts:** spirit, one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yōki, inki

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, one), 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:pg8128:6:26
# text = For the spirit of the living is _yōki_, and pure;—the spirit of the dead is _inki_, and unclean: the one is Positive, the other Negative.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yōki	yōki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	inki	inki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	Positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | yōki and inki |  |  |  | for the spirit of the living | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the spirit of the dead | inki |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the one |  |  |  |  | positive *property* | 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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