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title: Therefore if you will give us a hundred _ryō_, I can take the _o-fud… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore if you will give us a hundred _ryō_, I can take the _o-fuda_ away without being afraid of losing our only means of support.” Who acts: you, I, our. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 32

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Therefore if you will give us a hundred \_ryō\_, I can take the \_o-fuda\_ away without being afraid of losing our only means of support.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, our · **What happens:** give, take, be, lose, mean · **To what, where:** hundred ryō, us, \_

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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 (you, I, 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:pg8128:7:32
# text = Therefore if you will give us a hundred _ryō_, I can take the _o-fuda_ away without being afraid of losing our only means of support.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ryō	ryō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fuda	fuda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | you | a hundred ryō | us |  |  | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient ryō=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | can | I | the \_ |  |  |  | of fuda; away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent \_=Theme of fuda=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | our |  |  |  |  | of support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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