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title: Although a king of this country will try to destroy the impression,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Although a king of this country will try to destroy the impression, it can never be entirely destroyed.’ Who acts: king. 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 32

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Although a king of this country will try to destroy the impression, it can never be entirely destroyed.’

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** try, destroy, not destroy · **To what, where:** impression, country

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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 (king), 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:pg8128:8:33
# text = Although a king of this country will try to destroy the impression, it can never be entirely destroyed.’
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | future | a king of this country |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a king of this country *not said here* | the impression |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **destroy** | can · passive |  | country |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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