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title: The old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the cre… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature was a belief justified by fact; but the perceptivities are not visual. Who acts: old universal belief, perceptivities. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tre
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 39

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The old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature was a belief justified by fact; but the perceptivities are not visual.

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**Who acts:** old universal belief, perceptivities · **What happens:** be, justify, not be · **To what, where:** belief

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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 (old universal belief, perceptivities), 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:pg8128:9:39
# text = The old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature was a belief justified by fact; but the perceptivities are not visual.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	superhuman	superhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	perceptivities	perceptivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	justified	justify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	perceptivities	perceptivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	visual	visual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature | a belief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **justify** *speech: other* | participle |  | a belief *not said here* |  |  |  | by fact | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the perceptivities |  |  |  |  | visual *property* | tree rules |

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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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