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title: Even he who beholds the sign after my death shall be delivered from… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even he who beholds the sign after my death shall be delivered from all the evil results of all his errors.” Who acts: sign, my. 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 43

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Even he who beholds the sign after my death shall be delivered from all the evil results of all his errors.”

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**Who acts:** sign, my · **What happens:** behold, deliver, die, result, err · **To what, where:** sign, death, evil results, errors

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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 (sign, my), 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:pg8128:8:44
# text = Even he who beholds the sign after my death shall be delivered from all the evil results of all his errors.”
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beholds	behold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | present | sign | the sign |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deliver** | shall · passive |  | my death |  | all evil results of sign's errors |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from result=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | sign's errors |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **err** |  | sign |  |  |  |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: 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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