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title: Explained as signifying the divine force that “strikes and breaks al… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Explained as signifying the divine force that “strikes and breaks all the lusts (_bonnō_) of the world.” 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 70

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Explained as signifying the divine force that “strikes and breaks all the lusts (\_bonnō\_) of the world.”

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**What happens:** explain, signify, break · **To what, where:** divine force · **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: 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:pg8128:8:71
# text = Explained as signifying the divine force that “strikes and breaks all the lusts (_bonnō_) of the world.”
1	Explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lusts	lust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bonnō	bonnō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund |  | the divine force |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot force=Theme |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | present |  | the divine force |  |  |  | strikes *obl*; all lusts and bonnō of the world *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient lust=Result |

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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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