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title: Still burn his footprints in the East; and still the great West, mar… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Still burn his footprints in the East; and still the great West, marvelling, follows their gleam to seek the Supreme Enlightenment. Who acts: you, great West. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 114

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Still burn his footprints in the East; and still the great West, marvelling, follows their gleam to seek the Supreme Enlightenment.

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**Who acts:** you, great West · **What happens:** burn, follow, seek · **To what, where:** footprints, East, gleam, Supreme Enlightenment

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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 (you, great West), 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:pg8128:8:115
# text = Still burn his footprints in the East; and still the great West, marvelling, follows their gleam to seek the Supreme Enlightenment.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	marvelling	marvelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | truth's footprints |  | the East | still |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | the great West | Footprints's gleam |  |  | still |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the great West *not said here* | the Supreme Enlightenment |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enlightenment=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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