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title: Emblem of _murō_,—a mystical word which might be literally rendered… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Emblem of _murō_,—a mystical word which might be literally rendered as “not-leaking,”—signifying that condition of supreme intelligence triumphant over birth and death. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 79

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Emblem of \_murō\_,—a mystical word which might be literally rendered as “not-leaking,”—signifying that condition of supreme intelligence triumphant over birth and death.

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**What happens:** render, not leak, signify, condition · **To what, where:** mystical word, condition, Emblem, supreme intelligence

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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:pg8128:8:80
# text = Emblem of _murō_,—a mystical word which might be literally rendered as “not-leaking,”—signifying that condition of supreme intelligence triumphant over birth and death.
1	Emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	murō	murō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | might · passive |  | a mystical word |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **leak** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **signify** | gerund |  | that condition of supreme intelligence |  |  |  | triumphant *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot condition=Theme |
| 5 | **condition** |  |  | supreme intelligence |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state 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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