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title: “That also I can do, if you will promise to bring me the hundred _ry… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “That also I can do, if you will promise to bring me the hundred _ryō_.” Who acts: That, you. 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 49

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“That also I can do, if you will promise to bring me the hundred \_ryō\_.”

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**Who acts:** That, you · **What happens:** do, promise, bring · **To what, where:** hundred ryō, lady

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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 (That, you), 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:pg8128:7:49
# text = “That also I can do, if you will promise to bring me the hundred _ryō_.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ryō	ryō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | can | That |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the hundred ryō | lady |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ryō=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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