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title: It may represent the original primitive cry of her species,—totally… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It may represent the original primitive cry of her species,—totally unmodified by centuries of domestication. Who acts: howl, species. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 13

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It may represent the original primitive cry of her species,—totally unmodified by centuries of domestication.

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**Who acts:** howl, species · **What happens:** represent, unmodify, cry · **To what, where:** original primitive cry, species

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (howl, species), 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:pg8128:9:13
# text = It may represent the original primitive cry of her species,—totally unmodified by centuries of domestication.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	unmodified	unmodify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	domestication	domestication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | may | howl | the original primitive cry of uneasiness's species |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cry=Theme |
| 2 | **unmodify** | participle |  | uneasiness's species *not said here* |  |  | century | totally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** |  | uneasiness's species |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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