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title: Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that have feeling and desire. Who acts: you, forms. 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 50

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Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that have feeling and desire.

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**Who acts:** you, forms · **What happens:** be, eat, have · **To what, where:** forms, feeling

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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 (you, forms), 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:pg8128:9:50
# text = Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that have feeling and desire.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future · infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | none *conj*; vegetarian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | must | you | forms |  |  |  | less *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | forms | feeling and desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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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