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title: Then he said to his disciple Anan [_Ânanda_]: ‘In this place I leave… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said to his disciple Anan [_Ânanda_]: ‘In this place I leave the impression of my feet, to remain for a last token. Who acts: Buddha, I. 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 31

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Then he said to his disciple Anan \[\_Ânanda\_\]: ‘In this place I leave the impression of my feet, to remain for a last token.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, I · **What happens:** say, leave, remain, impress · **To what, where:** disciple, impression, place, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Buddha, 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:pg8128:8:32
# text = Then he said to his disciple Anan [_Ânanda_]: ‘In this place I leave the impression of my feet, to remain for a last token.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Anan	Anan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Ânanda	Ânanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	remain	remain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Buddha |  | Buddha's disciple |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to disciple=Recipient |
| 2 | **leave** | present | I | the impression of my feet |  | this place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent impression=Theme in place=Location |
| 3 | **remain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a last token | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **impress** |  |  | my feet |  |  |  |  | nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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