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title: _” No evidence exists to support the fancy that a dog can see any fo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _” No evidence exists to support the fancy that a dog can see any forms of being which a man cannot see. Who acts: evidence, dog, man. 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 42

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\_” No evidence exists to support the fancy that a dog can see any forms of being which a man cannot see.

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**Who acts:** evidence, dog, man · **What happens:** exist, support, see, be, not see · **To what, where:** fancy, forms

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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 (evidence, dog, man), 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:pg8128:9:42
# text = _” No evidence exists to support the fancy that a dog can see any forms of being which a man cannot see.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** *in a quote* | present | no evidence |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **support** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no evidence *not said here* | the fancy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fancy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | can | a dog | any forms |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of any forms | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | can | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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