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title: Beautiful to the poet’s vision our world may seem,—with its loves, i… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 47

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Beautiful to the poet’s vision our world may seem,—with its loves, its hopes, its memories, its aspirations; but there is nothing beautiful in the fact that life is fed by continual murder,—that the tenderest affection, the noblest enthusiasm, the purest idealism, must be nourished by the eating of flesh and the drinking of blood.

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**Who acts:** world, nothing, continual murder, eating, flesh · **What happens:** seem, love, be, feed, nourish, hope · **To what, where:** tenderest affection, hopes, life, blood

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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 (world, nothing, continual murder, eating), 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:pg8128:9:47
# text = Beautiful to the poet’s vision our world may seem,—with its loves, its hopes, its memories, its aspirations; but there is nothing beautiful in the fact that life is fed by continual murder,—that the tenderest affection, the noblest enthusiasm, the purest idealism, must be nourished by the eating of flesh and the drinking of blood.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	aspirations	aspiration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	tenderest	tender	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	50	amod	_	_
50	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	54	amod	_	_
54	idealism	idealism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | may | our world | the tenderest affection and the noblest enthusiasm and the purest idealism |  |  |  | to the poet's vision | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | present | our world *not said here* | world's hopes and world's memories and world's aspirations |  |  |  | world *nmod:poss* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feed** | present · passive | continual murder | life |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **nourish** | must · passive | the eating of flesh and the drinking of blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hope** |  | world |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **eat** |  | flesh |  |  |  |  |  | nom eating «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **drink** |  |  | blood |  |  |  |  | nom drinking «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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