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title: Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not merciful, and still more certainly not loving. 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 45

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Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not merciful, and still more certainly not loving.

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**What happens:** not love · **To what, where:** unknowable ultimate way

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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: 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:pg8128:9:45
# text = Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not merciful, and still more certainly not loving.
1	Divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
7	unknowable	unknowable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	loving	love	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **love** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | certainly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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