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title: [10] The Japanese word _mamori_ has significations at least as numer… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [10] The Japanese word _mamori_ has significations at least as numerous as those attaching to our own term “amulet.” Who acts: 10, our. 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 84

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\[10\] The Japanese word \_mamori\_ has significations at least as numerous as those attaching to our own term “amulet.”

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**Who acts:** 10, our · **What happens:** have, attach, term · **To what, where:** significations

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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 (10, our), 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:pg8128:6:85
# text = [10] The Japanese word _mamori_ has significations at least as numerous as those attaching to our own term “amulet.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mamori	mamori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	significations	signification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	attaching	attach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	amulet	amulet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | 10  the Japanese word | significations |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Patient |
| 2 | **attach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to our own term and amulet | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to term=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **term** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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