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title: And for all life the end is the same: every creature, whether buried… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And for all life the end is the same: every creature, whether buried or burnt, is devoured,—and not only once or twice,—nor a hundred, nor a thousand, nor a myriad times! Who acts: end. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 54

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And for all life the end is the same: every creature, whether buried or burnt, is devoured,—and not only once or twice,—nor a hundred, nor a thousand, nor a myriad times!

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**Who acts:** end · **What happens:** be, bury, burnt, devour · **To what, where:** creature

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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 (end), 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:pg8128:9:54
# text = And for all life the end is the same: every creature, whether buried or burnt, is devoured,—and not only once or twice,—nor a hundred, nor a thousand, nor a myriad times!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	42	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	myriad	myriad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the end |  |  |  | time | for all life; every creature *parataxis*; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | every creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **devour** | present · passive | the end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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