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title: There is no anatomical reason for supposing a dog to possess excepti… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no anatomical reason for supposing a dog to possess exceptional powers of vision. Who acts: anatomical reason. 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 37

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There is no anatomical reason for supposing a dog to possess exceptional powers of vision.

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**Who acts:** anatomical reason · **What happens:** be, suppose, possess · **To what, where:** dog, exceptional powers

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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 (anatomical reason), 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:pg8128:9:37
# text = There is no anatomical reason for supposing a dog to possess exceptional powers of vision.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	anatomical	anatomical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no anatomical reason |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | gerund | no anatomical reason *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dog=Attribute |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive | no anatomical reason *not said here* | exceptional powers of vision |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme |

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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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