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title: Now once again, my dear young lady, let me beg you not to think any… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Now once again, my dear young lady, let me beg you not to think any more about him!” Who acts: dear young lady, me. 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 37

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Now once again, my dear young lady, let me beg you not to think any more about him!”

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**Who acts:** dear young lady, me · **What happens:** let, beg, not think · **To what, where:** me, you, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dear young lady, me), 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:pg8128:7:37
# text = Now once again, my dear young lady, let me beg you not to think any more about him!”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	any	any	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | my dear young lady | me |  |  | now; again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | more about heart |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |

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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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