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title: Only once more, I pray, dear Yone!—only once more bring me face to f… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Only once more, I pray, dear Yone!—only once more bring me face to face with Hagiwara Sama,—I beseech you!” Who acts: I. 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 41

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Only once more, I pray, dear Yone!—only once more bring me face to face with Hagiwara Sama,—I beseech you!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pray, bring, face, beseech · **To what, where:** dear Yone, me, 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 (I), 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:pg8128:7:41
# text = Only once more, I pray, dear Yone!—only once more bring me face to face with Hagiwara Sama,—I beseech you!”
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Yone	yone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Hagiwara	Hagiwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Sama	Sama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | dear Yone |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to face with Hagiwara Sama | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beseech** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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