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title: I shall therefore tell you only this,—that the dead person has no de… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall therefore tell you only this,—that the dead person has no desire to injure you out of hate, feels no enmity towards you: she is influenced, on the contrary, by the most passionate affection for you. Who acts: I, dead person, passionate affection. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 72

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I shall therefore tell you only this,—that the dead person has no desire to injure you out of hate, feels no enmity towards you: she is influenced, on the contrary, by the most passionate affection for you.

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**Who acts:** I, dead person, passionate affection · **What happens:** tell, have, injure, feel, influence · **To what, where:** you, desire, hate, enmity, danger · **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 (I, dead person, passionate affection), 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:pg8128:6:73
# text = I shall therefore tell you only this,—that the dead person has no desire to injure you out of hate, feels no enmity towards you: she is influenced, on the contrary, by the most passionate affection for you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	passionate	passionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | shall | I |  | you |  |  | therefore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present | the dead person | no desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 3 | **injure** | to-infinitive | the dead person *not said here* | you |  | hate |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | present |  | no enmity |  |  |  | towards you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enmity=Theme |
| 5 | **influence** | present · passive | the passionate affection for you | danger |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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