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title: “It is true that I deserve your blame;—but I had no wish to cause yo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is true that I deserve your blame;—but I had no wish to cause you anger. Who acts: courage, wife, wish, your. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 29

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“It is true that I deserve your blame;—but I had no wish to cause you anger.

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**Who acts:** courage, wife, wish, your · **What happens:** be, deserve, have, cause, blame · **To what, where:** blame, wish, you

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage, wife, wish, your), 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:pg8128:7:29
# text = “It is true that I deserve your blame;—but I had no wish to cause you anger.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | courage |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | Tomozō's wife *= wife* | your blame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Tomozō's wife *= wife* | no wish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no wish *not said here* | you |  |  |  | anger *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer you=Theme anger=Eventuality |
| 5 | **blame** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom blame «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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