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title: “Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from thinking about him! Who acts: Dear Yone, Yoné. 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 39

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“Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from thinking about him!

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**Who acts:** Dear Yone, Yoné · **What happens:** happen, not keep, think · **To what, where:** Yoné

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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 Yone, Yoné), 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:pg8128:7:39
# text = “Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from thinking about him!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Yone	Yone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *in a quote* | may | Dear Yone |  |  |  |  | whatever *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | can | Yoné | Yoné |  |  |  | possibly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Yoné *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Yone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic |

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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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