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title: “A very great danger now threatens you, because of an error committe… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “A very great danger now threatens you, because of an error committed in one of your former states of existence. Who acts: great danger. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 70

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“A very great danger now threatens you, because of an error committed in one of your former states of existence.

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**Who acts:** great danger · **What happens:** threaten, commit · **To what, where:** you, error

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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 (great danger), 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:pg8128:6:71
# text = “A very great danger now threatens you, because of an error committed in one of your former states of existence.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** *in a quote* | present | a great danger | you |  |  | now | because a error | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **commit** *in a quote* | participle |  | a error *not said here* |  |  |  | in one of your former states of existence | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination |

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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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