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title: But there is no reason to fear that you will ever be disowned by you… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is no reason to fear that you will ever be disowned by your father; for you are his only daughter, and he loves you very much. Who acts: reason, father, you. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 3

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But there is no reason to fear that you will ever be disowned by your father; for you are his only daughter, and he loves you very much.

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**Who acts:** reason, father, you · **What happens:** be, fear, disown, love · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (reason, father, you), 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:pg8128:6:3
# text = But there is no reason to fear that you will ever be disowned by your father; for you are his only daughter, and he loves you very much.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	disowned	disown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no reason |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fear** | to-infinitive | no reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **disown** | future · passive | your father | you |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for reason's only daughter; reason *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** | present | reason | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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