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title: All men reverence religion, and regulate their conduct in all matter… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: All men reverence religion, and regulate their conduct in all matters with earnestness and modesty.” Who acts: men. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 102

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All men reverence religion, and regulate their conduct in all matters with earnestness and modesty.”

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** regulate, conduct · **To what, where:** conduct, matters

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg8128:8:103
# text = All men reverence religion, and regulate their conduct in all matters with earnestness and modesty.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	regulate	regulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	modesty	modesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regulate** | infinitive | all men and reverence religion | men's conduct |  | all matters with earnestness and modesty |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conduct** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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