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title: But if we could obtain the sum of a hundred _ryō_ in gold, we should… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But if we could obtain the sum of a hundred _ryō_ in gold, we should be able to please you, because we should then need no help from anybody. Who acts: we. 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 31

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But if we could obtain the sum of a hundred \_ryō\_ in gold, we should be able to please you, because we should then need no help from anybody.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** obtain, be, please, need, sum · **To what, where:** sum, you, help, anybody, hundred ryō

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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 (we), 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:pg8128:7:31
# text = But if we could obtain the sum of a hundred _ryō_ in gold, we should be able to please you, because we should then need no help from anybody.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ryō	ryō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | we | the sum of a hundred ryō |  |  |  | gold *conj* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | should | we |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **please** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 4 | **need** | should | we | no help |  | anybody | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | a hundred ryō |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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